One of the most exciting developments in the musical world over the past twenty-five or so years has been the gradual re-awakening of interest in the Romantic era, and more specifically in those composers who until recently have been consigned to an undeserved obscurity, not necessarily through lack of quality in their musical output but because of the changing dictates in fashion in the earlier years of the present century. A Romantic revival is now under way and is gaining steady momentum.