This third release in the Naxos British Piano Concertos series brings together a fascinating collection of piano concertos by four very diverse composers written in the middle decades of the last century. The First Piano Concerto by Alec Rowley has a breezy, open-air freshness about it, with the occasional hint of Delius and Britten. The Concertino for Piano and Strings by Christian Darnton, the least known composer represented here, is couched in a spiky neo-classical idiom. Roberto Gerhard’s glittering Piano Concerto combines serial techniques with elements drawn from Spanish folk music. Howard Ferguson’s lyrical Concerto for Piano and strings, at the heart of which lies a melancholy theme with six variations, is classical in conception and scale.