From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Sitting in the dental hygienist’s chair, my ears slathered with Classic FM, I cried out for something like this richly varied album where one composer was born in 1656 and another in 1996. I kept thinking, as the polisher whirred, that there must be a seat in hell for a DJ who programs Stanley Myers’ guitar Cavatina from The Deer Hunter alongside Beethoven’s phone-ring Für Elise. (If there isn’t, I’ll endow one.)…
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