distinctive musical voice.() Other acclaimed works by Rawsthorne include a viola sonata (1937), two piano concertos (1939, 1951), an oboe concerto (1947), two violin concertos (1948, 1956), a concerto for string orchestra (1949), and the Elegy for guitar (1971), a piece written for and completed by Julian Bream after the composer's death. Other works include a cello concerto, three acknowledged string quartets among other chamber works, and three symphonies. Rawsthorne wrote a number of film scores. His best–known work in this field was the music for the 1953 British war film The Cruel Sea, and his other scores included many popular British films, such as The Captive Heart (1946), School for Secrets (1946), Uncle Silas (1947), Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951), Where No Vultures Fly (1951), West of Zanzibar (1954), The Man Who Never Was (1956) and Floods of Fear (1958). Family In 1934 Rawsthorne married his first wife Jessie Hinchcliffe, a violinist in the Philharmonia Orchestra. They separated in 1947 and divorced in 1954. The following year he married Isabel Rawsthorne (née Isabel Nicholas), an artist and model well known in the Paris and Soho art scenes. Her contemporaries included André Derain, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon. Isabel Rawsthorne was the widow of composer Constant Lambert and stepmother to Kit Lambert, manager of the rock group the Who, who died in 1981. Alan Rawsthorne was her third husband; Sefton Delmer (the journalist and member of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War) was her first husband. Isabel died in 1992. Compositions Ballet Madame Chrysanthème (1955) Orchestral Light Music for Strings (1938) Symphonic Studies (1938) Cortèges, Fantasy Overture (1945) Concerto for String Orchestra (1949) Symphonies Symphony No. 1 (1950) Symphony No. 2 A Pastoral Symphony (1959) Symphony No. 3 (1964) Improvisations on a Theme by Constant Lambert (1960) Music from film The Cruel Sea Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra (1962) Elegiac Rhapsody for Strings (1963) Hallé Overture Suite from Madame Chrysanthème Overture for Farnham Prisoners' March – from film The Captive Heart Street Corner Overture Theme, Variations and Finale Triptych for orchestra Concertante Clarinet Concerto (1936–37) Oboe Concerto (1947) Concertante Pastorale for flute, horn and orchestra (1951) Cello Concerto (1966) Violin Violin Concerto No. 1 (1948) Violin Concerto No. 2 (1956) Piano Piano Concerto No. 1 (1939, revised 1942) Piano Concerto No. 2 (1951) Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1968)