British Composers

The British Composers range was a series of re-releases of classic recordings and new releases from EMI Classics, some reissued under Warner Classics when Warner Music Group purchased the label. The series invoked the tagline "Celebrating the Past, Shaping the Future." The first series of nine issues in mid-1991, followed by a second set of eight in autumn of the same year. Each CD release featured a small gold or silver foil stamp of the British Isles on the cover, with the words "British Composers" above. Releases continued through the 1990s. The releases were a mix of mid-price and full-price CDs. They featured many composers, including Arnold, Bax, Bliss, Brian, Bridge, Britten, Delius, Elgar, Ferguson, Finzi, Holst, Ireland, Maw, Moeran, Sullivan, Tippett, Turnage, Vaughan Williams, and Walton.