'This is echt original Woolrich. Eleven tiny movements each a perfectly realised cameo each revealed stated and gone perfectly expressing the beautiful lines of Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely by whose work it was inspired.'The Musical Times 29 January 1993

Prepared from the composer's original manuscript by the distinguished Mozart scholar Richard Maunder this is the first modern Urtext edition of Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore K339.

Bhakti was written in 1982 to a commission from IRCAM Paris. It is in twelve short movements totalling about fifty minutes. There are 36 subsections; each one defined by a certain number of instruments playing a certain pitch cell. As there are only 12 types of subsection each occurs (with variation) 3 times thus making for repetitions over the course of the work.Scored for a chamber group fo 15 instrumentalists and quadraphonic tape.

The first performance was given by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Oliver Knussen in the Barbican Hall London on 11 February 1994.

Memento Mori is a work for Orchestra from celebrated Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe. The piece features some hauntingly beautiful melodies and striking tonal contrasts. The work is said to be inspired by a visit to Easter Island famous for its great stone heads monuments that can be seen as both an example of the indomitable nature of the human spirit and as part of its great folly -for their making and transportation deforested and impoverished the island.

Dmitri Shostakovich's Trio No. 1 Op.8 & Trio No. 2 Op.67 for Violin Cello and Piano.

For Cello and string orchestra and commisioned by the 1985 Kings Lynn Festival with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. Maw's highly individual musical voice is basically tonal blending the familiar with the unfamiliar and characterised by a natural lyricism. a great many remarkable qualities. . . it contains numerous precise and beautiful images.Paul Griffiths The Times 22 September 1986

'. . .fresh as paint in its firing of a melodic line that just goes on in a kind of angular strain shuttled from one instrumental colouring to another.'Paul Griffiths The Times 12 February 1991

Opera in three parts-The libretto of Handels shortest opera is based on Plutarchs account of the life of the cruel Roman consul and dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla. He was a figure who went down in history above all for his reign of terror his libertine life-style andhis unexpected abdication and withdrawal to private life. As Sulla voluntarily declined his rulership Handel was able to provide a lieto fine - the happy ending typical of Baroque opera.