Carol Fantasia was written for the BBC Radio Orchestra's regular Tuesday night BBC Radio 2 showcase programme. It features the following carols and Christmas hymns: God rest you merry, gentlemen,

Xylophones ahoy! John Rutter's 'Partita' of 1976, now 'Cityscapes', is not a piece you might necessarily have expected from the renowned composer of some of the classics of contemporary sacred choral music.

The Crown of India March has been extracted from the elaborate theatrical presentation, a masque, originally including twelve pieces, staged in 1912 to celebrate the visit the preceding December of King

An Elgar Diptych brings together two independent and contrasting works composed by Elgar as he stood on the brink of national fame. Meditation, with its self-explanatory title, forms the first movement of

The circumstances surrounding the composition of the "Granada" Prelude make it, quite paradoxically, one of the most obscure pieces in William Walton's catalogue and the most often heard. It was

The Pomp and Circumstance Marches (full title Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches), Op. 39, are a series of six marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar. The first four were published between

The Wand of Youth suites, subtitled "Music to a Child's Play", were written in 1869 when Elgar was only twelve years old, music written for a play and acted by the Elgar children for a private family

The Wand of Youth suites were written in 1869 when Elgar was only twelve years old, music written for a play and acted by the Elgar children for a private family theatrical production. He noted the