Solway Symphony / Hills O'Heather
McEwen (1868-48) was a contemporary of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Perry,  and Stanford, yet his music was overshadowed by them throughout McEwen's long  life and he has long languished in obscurity--for no good reason. This is an  excellent gathering of McEwen's music, particularly the Solway Symphony (1909).  Romantic in its ideas, its structure is more Modern, its arches more complex.Hills o' Heather(1918) is for cello and orchestra and takes in various  Celtic and Scottish motifs. During McEwen's retirement, when he was living in  France, he wroteWhere the Wild Thyme Blows, his last orchestral work.  Another Chandos resurrected gem.--Paul Cook