Arthur Butterworth: Path Across the Moors.

Arthur Butterworth - 1923 - 2014 English composer of light and classical music, conductor and trumpet player. Performed with the SNO and Halle Orchestras. His output includes four symphonies, works and arrangements for brass band and several concertos.
So much of Arthur Butterworth's music was inspired by the English North Country Landscape, none more so than 'Path Across the Moors' completed in October 1958, - a title as vividly evocative as it is self explanatory.
On this video images of moorland scenery with which the composer would clearly identify.
Escape and Enjoy!
Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Gavin Sutherland
Album - 'British Light Music Discoveries'

[@sandyconnell8629]

Thank you for the upload! It's a pleasure to discover this enchanting score

[@feline1104]

Thank you Sandy, so glad to enable this discovery.

[@gavinbullock6205]

Thanks for putting this on. A lovely piece! Jayne, he wrote six symphonies, not four. All apart from No.6 are available on CD and No.6 can be found on RUclips.

[@gavinbullock6205]

Sorry - No.3 not on CD, but on RUclips.

[@gavinbullock6205]

This is embarrassing - he wrote seven symphonies:
Symphony no.1 op.15 (1957)
Symphony no.2 op. 25 (1964)
‘A Moorland Symphony’ for bass solo, chorus and orchestra op.32 (1967)
Symphony no.3 ‘Sinfonia Borealis’ op. 52 (1979)
Symphony no.4 op.72 (1986)
Symphony no.5 op.115 (2001-2)
Symphony no.6 op.124 (c 2005?)
Symphony no.7 op.140 (2011)
I think that is correct - at last

[@feline1104]

Thanks for the information Gavin, this is another composer seriously underrated!

[@maxmerry8470]

I love Arthur Butterworth's music which, clearly indebted to Sibelius, somehow stands apart from the Delius/Elgar/Vaughan Williams influence on much British orchestral music. Beautiful accompanying imagery, by the way!

[@feline1104]

Thank you so much Max .... appreciate the comment. Another underrated British Composer I think... Best wishes Jayne Anne.

[@maxmerry8470]

Another composer who seemed under the spell of Sibelius was the New Zealander, Douglas Lilburn. Totally different cultural context to Butterworth, of course, but interesting to compare how they found individual voices despite having the same major influence.