In April the CEO of the German CD label "cpo", Burkhard Schmilgun, asked Douglas Bostock to look into music by little known British composers from the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. A treasure trove was unlocked. Douglas was particularly attracted by the music of William Smethergell (1751-1836), of whom he had previously not heard. It turned out that the original parts of the "Six Overtures in 8 Parts" (1790) were in the Henry Watson Music Library in Manchester, where Do