YORK BOWEN (1884-1961): Ballade No. 1, Nocturne, Turnstiles, Op. 98/3, The Warning and Solitude from Songs Without Words, Op. 94, Suite No. 2, Idyll, Op. 97, Romance in G Flat, Op. 35/2, Fantasia, Op. 132, Evening Calm.

Description: The Bowen renaissance continues with 82 minutes of mostly first recordings (only the Fantasia and Evening Calm are currently available) of repertoire from one end of the composer's career to the other. English neo-Romanticism at its, as we're increasingly discovering, near best and proving that the more Bowen you hear, the less he can be dismissed by snobs as "the English Rachmaninov". 2 CDs. Mark Tanner (piano).