Gloucestershire County Youth Choir, Gloucestershire County Youth Orchestra, Glyn Oxley

Elgar Serenade for Strings in E minor

Butterworth On the Banks of Green Willow

Thomas Johnson Street of Bugles

Premiered at last summer's Festival of Music for Youth in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Street of Bugles is an oratorio by Gloucestershire composer Thomas Johnson and librettist Karen Hayes, telling the story of how young music-makers in the county were affected by the First World War, and put together for performances by their present-day counterparts following creative writing sessions with local teenagers and primary school children. It is paired with two masterpieces of English orchestral music: Elgar's ravishing Serenade for Strings, and the pastoral idyll On the Banks of Green Willow by George Butterworth, who died on the Somme in 1916.