Les Penning / Rob Reed - Les Penning/ Rob ReedSide one consists of a group of pieces that seem always to have been a part of my life. From the age of nine I started to learn many of the tunes found in Playford's collection including, of course, the wonderful 'Portsmouth'. These are the pieces that were the core repertoire that Mike Oldfield and I served up to the unsuspecting diners at Penrhos Court.

custom and above all

Barry Galbraith

the crate-digging

West Side Story

AKA Trio Fusion and more

these memorable pieces will come as a revelation to lieder fans

St Olaf Choir/ Tchaikovsky - Tchaikovsky

bowing out before the dust had time to settle

Fourteen reissues performed by the leading musicians in the field

Bloodline Maintenance is both a political and personally revealing work

the opera is sung in German translation rather than Russian for the Austrian audience in attendance

when Brown began experimenting with his signature plywood crate drum rhythms