"We listened to it straight through with pleasure and growing admiration. Sabre Dance... we played through again as an encore.”
Peter Grahame Woolf, MusicalPointers.co.uk
MusicalPointers.co.uk
A very classy collection of Armenian folk-derived music put over expertly with flair and controlled schmaltz, never quite over the top. We listened to it straight through with pleasure and growing admiration.
The clever chamber music arrangement of the Sabre Dance to end left no feeling that we were being short-changed without an orchestra; indeed we played it through again as an encore.
It took five recording days at Abbey Road in London (October 2007); the recording quality is of the highest and there are no lapses in the feeling of spontaneity.
