Only three of the five works here are officially labelled as rhapsodies. But the others - the rather short-winded tone poem In the Mountain Country, composed in 1921 while EJ Moeran was still a student at the Royal College of Music, and the Overture for a Masque, written for troop concerts during the second world war – follow the same formal pattern: a series of loosely linked musical episodes on real or invented folksy themes (though the rather bluff overture does have more sense of thematic coherence). In the Ulster Orchestra's robust performances of the three early works, beginning with the tone poem and followed by the first and second rhapsodies, it's possible to hear Moeran's steadily increasing confidence, both in his writing for orchestra and in handling form, in a language that owes most to Vaughan Williams. The third Rhapsody is a much later piece, composed just before the overture and effectively a single-movement concertante for piano and orchestra, in which Benjamin Frith is the committed, appropriately energetic soloist.