The great joy of this disc is threefold. Firstly, we are treated to some pieces of Elgar that one rarely encounters, such as the three early settings of O Salutaris Hostia…

The Concerto For Orchestra again opens with the familiar…rippling woodwinds, and throughout, the sound world is identical to that of the Symphony – bursting with the same tricks of orchestration and rhythm…

With such a smorgasbord of preludes, this disc is best sampled sparingly, but everything here is finely played and cleanly recorded. Many of these scores are little-known…

In his very full notes on the music contained in this recording, Jürgen Schaarwächter makes the point that almost all Haydn’s contemporaries in Britain have largely been forgotten…

Colin Riley is Reader in Composition at Brunel University. His music draws on a range of elements including new technologies, improvisation, song-writing and large-scale classical form…

Another aspect of the matter is that organ music with a programme is much less common than in the past…