… the works on this new disc all are from the last decade or so of her life when her textures are becoming even more sparse, aphoristic and impressionistic.

When I first heard Walton’s Symphony 1 as a 12-year-old I thought it the most cacophonous nonsense.  Happily, over the ensuing decades it has become a firm favourite of mine…

These pieces demand a thoroughly accomplished piano virtuoso and with Hungarian pianist Gusztáv Fenyö, now settled in Glasgow, that is exactly what you get…

The final piece on the CD Black Host instructs the performer to Freak Out (from whence the title of the CD) to ‘Go ape’ and to ‘Detonate’…

Interest in the music of Ruth Gipps is clearly increasing.  I suggest the reason for this is that there is an appetite for the less well-known…

The disc is beautifully recorded throughout and has very useful booklet notes by Mervyn Cooke and Nicholas Daniel…