| |
| | Records International Catalogue August 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | From 1843 to 1872, Lumbye directed the orchestra at the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, founding the traditions kept alive by the orchestra on this recording and made concert tours throughout Europe where he was applauded everywhere as a worthy rival to the Viennese Strausses. |
 | | Stevenson's æsthetic is one in which the voice, the melody, the vocal line, is of paramount importance; the composer never forgets that all music is derived from singing, either in his own pianism, or in whatever medium he is writing for. |
 | | The aptly aphoristic Haiku, with their subtle inflections of the Orient due to the composer's use of unfamiliar modes and scales (and yet, as in all Stevenson's music, the language is universal), encapsulate profundity in brevity, yet another facet of this unique composer's communicative achievement. |
| www.recordsinternational.com /RICatalogAug98.html (10383 words) |
|