REPRINT SERIES Rawsthorne’s perky Street Corner Overture (1944), evokes, in the composer’s words, "a Saturday night at the crossroads of a busy industrial town". This is a bubbling, infectious piece and it’s all great fun.  

Alan Rawsthorne's First Symphony is a thunderous, bounding, jagged affair, relieved by quieter moments of irony.

REPRINT SERIES The Oboe Concerto might draw comparisons with the one by Vaughan Williams available here, but while it has the same depth of emotion, it also has fewer melancholic elements.