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...Without exception, all involved in this project give outstanding performances, the supuerb quality of playing easily matching the high musical content from a composer who, on the evidence of this material never writes anything unworthy of full attention. This is riviting, attention-grabbing contemporary chamber music, full of impressionism, great rhythmic ideas and countless mood changes. Although not absolutely necessary to assist the aural pleasure of listening to this distinctive music, the titles infrequently provide a nice descriptive \'pictorial\' backdrop for the listener as in \"The Great Octopus\" (who, after swallowing a guitarist, begins to play his instrument), and \"Rush Hour\", a jittery composition for horn and piano and subtitled \"Five O\'Clock Drive Getting Nowhere On The Road\" and a work that really does sum up the emotions we have all experienced when stuck in endless traffic queues.
If you want to listen to first class, modern-day chamber music played exceptionally well, then seek no further.
- Steve Marsh
Classical Guitar Magazine
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