This intriguing CD allows the interested listener some insights into what might be termed ‘the lost Sullivan’ comprising as it does material from what is a little known, and still less frequently performed, aspect of the composer’s oeuvre…

This CD is specifically issued as a ‘balm for this troubled (Covid) era’ – or, the notes say – to send ‘a message of hope and comfort, and to be a light in the darkness during a difficult time’.

I Ching is the most ancient of the classical Chinese texts, thought to be 3,000 years old. It is intended to help individuals and governments divine fortuitous decisions in life, and to accept with equanimity when things do not turn out well…

Edward Gregson made his name a with a stunning series of highly original, tuneful works for British brass band, and latterly for orchestra. This CD follows on from an earlier Naxos disc of solo piano music.

… it is excitingly virtuosic, its fast chiming chords and dizzying runs performed with great élan by the splendid solo pianist, Duncan Honeybourne…

All but three of the songs on this disc have been recorded before, if infrequently; however for the most part this remains unfamiliar repertoire…