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NICHOLAS DANIEL OBOE JULIUS DRAKE PIANO Gerald Finzi Interlude Paul Patterson Duologue Herbert Howells Oboe Sonata Three world première recordings CD: LC 44801 GRAMOPHONE «This is a most interesting and rewarding recital, devoted to English pieces for oboe and piano that deserve to be better known... Nicholas Daniel, ... together with Julius Drake, plays all three works absolutely marvellously.» LUISTER Netherlands/Belgium «... a very exciting recital... Daniel possesses the beautiful sound and tension that this music demands» GRAMOPHONE «This is a most interesting and rewarding recital, devoted to English pieces for oboe and piano that deserve to better known... Nicholas Daniel, who has already done so much to champion new music for his instrument by English composers, together with Julius Drake, plays all three works absolutely marvellously, and they are given a vivid recording.» FANFARE The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors (USA) «... Many repertoire-oriented collectors who love this music (and I count myself among them) will find... this Léman Classics offering presents the only way that one can hear these pieces... The music is marvelous, from the dreamy, neo-Romantic Finzi Interlude (with its strategic dips into the manic), through the spikier, unabashedly virtuosic but still unproblematically accessible Patterson Duologue; to the sumptuous Howells Oboe Sonata with its backward looking thematic allusions to Walton's First Symphony...» more about Nicholas Daniel ... (coming soon) more about Julius Drake ... (coming soon)