The BBC Philharmonic led by John Andrews present a landmark recording, the first album devoted entirely to the music of Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903–1998), daughter of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. A composer, conductor, pianist, and singer of remarkable versatility, she long remained in the shadow of her father, but as the album reveals, she had a distinctive, eloquent, and assured musical voice. Her early works achieved some critical acclaim, as did her performances as a soprano. As she matured as a composer, her works were mostly positively received, and as a conductor she became the first woman to conduct H.M. Royal Marines, and to raise a baton on the bandstand in Hyde Park. The full range of her orchestral works is showcased on the album, ranging from her first major orchestral composition To April (1930), through to her 1967 In Memoriam. Apart from Sussex Landscape, every work on the program is a world premiere recording. Samantha Ege, one of the leading pianist-musicologists in the field of Black Women composers, is the featured soloist for Coleridge-Taylor’s Piano Concerto in F Minor.