Arcadia is a work for Violin, Soprano Saxophone and Piano, inspired by the painting Pastoral for E.W. by John Craxton. As a painter, John was sometimes dubbed a neo-Romantic, but much preferred the term Arcadian - hence the title of the piece.Pastoral for E.W. was painted in 1948 in St Johns Wood after one of Johns early trips to the island of Crete, and is a homage to Peter Watson, (co-founder of the magazine Horizon and the Institute of Contemporary Arts), who was one of Johnsearly mentors. In...