Robert Wyatt - Rock BottomLimited edition 2010 reissue. A certified art rock classic, this 1974 LP was written in the months before and after the five story fall that broke Robert's spine and put him in the hospital for a while. Mike Oldfield, Caravan's Richard Sinclair and Soft Machine's Hugh Hopper guest, with none other than Pink Floyd's Nick Mason in the producer's chair but it's Wyatt's guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals and intoxicating songs that take center stage: Sea

His 'Dance of the Goblins' has long been a mainstay of the recital repertoire for violinists seeking to send their audiences on their way with gasps of astonishment

Lynne and Jasper deftly navigate the angular harmonic construction of "Into the Breach

As he reveals

both in terms of the stylistic evolution of instrumental composition

plus two rare tracks of the trio backed by The Metropole Orchestra

Sunset Saturn

Towards the end of the 1940s he returned to the symphonic genre

The subsequently composed Symphony in B minor formed the crowning conclusion of Volbach's instrumental music for orchestral ensembles

playing nine different instruments

This programme was inspired by the passion for traditional Irish music that flautist Anna Besson has felt since she was a child

with it's roots in Latin forms but incorporating classical motifs and tinged with various jazz influences

has played with Bob Scobey