PHYLLIS BRYN-JULSON (SOP) ATHENA ENSEMBLE
Berio Opus Number Zoo, for wind quintet
Robin Holloway Diverti mento No 3 (Nursery Rhymes), for soprano and wind quintet (first performance)
Nursery Rhymes turned out to be the most approachable and aurally seductive first performance that can have been heard on Radio 3 for some time .... Rarely since Facade or early Britten has English writing to show off words sounded so melodious, yet unmistakably of its time.
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