Edwin Roxburgh was born in Liverpool in 1937. He won a double scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he studied composition with Herbert Howells, and oboe with Terence MacDonagh.

Commissioners and performers of Roxburgh’s music have ranged from Yehudi Menuhin and the BBC to Vincent Price and Prunella Scales.

The diverse activities of performing, conducting and teaching have been constant motivations to Edwin Roxburgh’s principal profession, composing.

The works on this new release are inspired by the virtuosic skill of the performers featured on this recording and they are joined by the composer himself in his meditative and transcendent work for oboe and electronics, At the Still Point of the Turning World.