The Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto series reaches 81 with this program of English piano concertos. While none hail from the Romantic period – they were written in 1938, 1946 and 1955 – two out of the three show a post-Romantic sensibility. Bax’s short Morning Song, written for his beloved muse Harriet Cohen, is a mood piece in the English pastoral style (though not without incident); a trifle, but a delightful one.

Arthur Bliss’s Piano Concerto, on the other hand, composed to impress the Americans at its premiere at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, is a lavish work in the style of Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninov. Lasting almost 40 minutes, it is structured in three movements: a feisty Allergro con brio, a yearning Adagietto, and a forthright Andante maestoso that closes with appropriate pianistic fireworks. It was premiered by the English pianist Solomon, and even that implacable virtuoso was stressed by the tricky double octave passage at the opening.

Edmund Rubbra’s Piano Concerto of 1955 is a different matter. Influenced by the Pakistani sarod player Ali Akbar Khan, it treats the piano in a quasi-improvisational way. Far from being confrontational in the heightened Romantic style, it...