Higginson/ Auchterlonie/ Viale - Scenes & MessagesGary Higginson has spent a life writing music for a wide range of formations, ages and abilities. Much of his work explores two great loves: nature and English literature, especially Shakespeare. Accordingly, this release presents a sequence of songs, instrumental works and a substantial cantata. This is music that is always communicative, characterful and accessible. He was born in West Bromwich which, although then semi rural, also forms part of the

songs blossomed from embryonic ideas into full-formed ones and he was ready to move on

anti-cosmopolitan forces that started to brew under the new soviet regime led many potential members of the society to emigrate

as he was known to all of us

and not least a healthy portion of the self-confidence forming a super-virtuoso's sine qua non

an unissued-at-the-time Cross-Eyed Alley Cat

"Leimer's love of kosmische is evident from the start

" The Dove

Perspective's twelve-song track list runs the gamut of their eclectic sound

Schumann avoids technical display for it's own sake

Comprised entirely of women

in the periodical Blanco y Negro

Jean Roger-Ducasse