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| | BLISS Song Hyperion recording session: Classical CD Reviews-March 2000 Music on the Web(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Yet having sat through most of Hyperions three day marathon recording Bliss songs one after another, I can report that when brought together they underline a quite distinctive achievement, and I feel sure the issued CDs will add an unsuspected new facet, an enhancement of sensibility, to Bliss the composer for most listeners. |
 | | In this piece Bliss asks for a large battery of percussion, including timps, with piano, trumpet, trombone, and tenor and baritone as drowning sailors. |
 | | What impressed about the other songs, some forty of them, particularly those written before 1930, was their sheer variety and invention. |
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