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Tonight’s RNCM Wind Orchestra performance opens with Richard Rodney Bennett’s first work for wind, a piece drawn from the sixth line of Wordsworth’s sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge.

The name Ingolf Dahl might not be a familiar one to the average classical listener, but he was a giant in the 20th century American West Coast school and his composition is viewed as a key concerto in concert saxophone circles. The programme also includes a work by Manchester-born composer Peter McGarr, plus Gavin Higgins’ wild, fastpaced ode to Sydney, and Percy Grainger’s bunch of ‘musical wildflowers’ (hence the title), a piece based on folksongs collected in Lincolnshire.