Halsey Stevens, whose Sonatina Piacevole is on this disc, is perhaps best known as a biographer of Bartók.
Most of the tracks on this album are world premiere recordings, with the exception of track 17.
Alan Rawsthorne's Practical Cats, featured on this album, was commissioned by the Edinburgh Festival Society for a children's concert.
T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, used in Rawsthorne's Practical Cats, became the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats.
Donald Waxman, who composed Serenade and Caprice for this album, studied at the Trinity School of Music in London after World War II.
John Turner, one of the leading recorder players featured on this album, has given the first performances of over 500 works for the recorder.
This album is a collection of works inspired by the chance discovery of Alan Rawsthorne's Chamber Cantata manuscript in the Library of Congress.
