W.T. Walton is a Lancashire Composer, born in 1902, whoso String Quartet was chosen for performance at the Salzburg International Musical Festival a few years ago. and later received an award from the Carnegie Trust, which each year pays for the publication of a number of striking new works.
Portsmouth Point is described as 'After a print by Rowlandson,' the caricaturist (1756-1827), whose drawings, humorous and broadly satirical, are well known.

Borodin (1834-1887), Doctor of Medicine and Professor of Chemistry, became one of the leading' Nationalist' composers in nineteenth century Russia. This powerful Symphony was completed in 1877. It is in four Movements. The FIRST is heroic and somewhat barbaric in style. The SECOND (Very fast) has persistent rhythms and plenty of gay orchestral colour. The THIRD is quiet and sombrely reflective, and the FOURTH (which follows without break) is a continuous flow of high spirits.