Parry’s final-period unaccompanied choral works culminate in the noble splendour of the Songs of Farewell. This youthful, bright, yet touchingly grave offering is boldly sung and resonantly recorded. Anthony Payne
Michel Portal: Baïlador
Michel Portal, Ambrose Akinmusire, Bojan Z, Lionel Loueke, Scott Colley, Jack DeJohnette 'Portal confirms himself as one of the most impressive bass clarinet and soprano sax players'
Wagner:Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Albert Dohmen, Georg Zeppenfeld etc; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir/ Marek Janowski 'This Meistersinger is imbued with incessant vitality and energy'