Frank Merrick (piano)
Sonata No. 1, In F sharp minor
Four _ Romantic Pieces Arnold Box
Alan Rawsthorne
(first broadcast performance)
Alan Rawsthorne is one of rhe few English composers of his generation to produce piano music thait has won success. He studied the piano with Frank Merrick at the Royal Manchester College of Music, and his Four Romantic Pieces were written specially for the recital given by Frank Merrick in London last March in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of lais first London reciital. They have no titles, only tempo indications: Lento—Allegro motto, Allegretto, Allegro quasi Presto, Adagio maestoso. H. R.