Ben Foskett: Dinosaur Composer_Butler; Martin and the performances were typically

and the performances were typically excellent’ – Andrew Clement

Originally issued with BBC Music Magazine in 1995

The works on this disc were recorded in July and November 2007 at Oxford Brookes University by Paul Dibley

Tatiana Koleva percussion

A heavy layer of bass instruments – contrabass clarinet and contrabassoon

Ben Foskett: Dinosaur Composer_Butler; Martin and the performances were typicallyThis survey of Ben Foskett's work spans 10 years, from the brooding Five Night Pieces for piano (2002) to Cinq Chansons a Hurle Vent a deceptively simple setting of poems by French writer Laure Salama, written from the point of view of characters in Wuthering Heights, for soprano and saxophone. Between these come the orchestral From Trumpet, built up from a single rhythmic cell; elegaic On from Four, commissioned for Manchester ensemble Psappha for