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Label: Jade Records
"This recital of short pieces, mostly for solo piano, is most approachable and varied, though not especially challenging. Allworth's pieces are rather impressionistic and meditative, and the same might be said of the Gross; the Beath makes use of Javanese modes; the Brumby is a set of entertaining and stylish character pieces based on the Commedia dell'Arte. Holland's Sonatina is clear-textured and economical, and contains some slightly uneasy depths generally not encountered elsewhere on the disc. Whitaker's piece for violin and piano is energetic and highly appealing. Altogether an entertaining disc, and proof that unfamiliar music by lesser-known composers can be very much the opposite of hard work to get to grips with. Ray Resnick (piano) and other artists."