Sunday Times

This memorial to Sir John Manduell, for years the head of the Royal Northern College of Music, is conceived as a sequence of settings of his favourite poet, Yeats. Recorders, oboe, violin, viola, cello and piano are used, sometimes without Rogers, and with Richard Baker as narrator in Robin Walker’s Four Nursery Rhymes. Among the 16 items are vivid brief inventions by Poole, Sally Beamish, David Horne, David Matthews and Peter Dickinson.

—Paul Driver