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into Elton John’s “Your Song”, and we are back in familiar territory. Others sit a bit safely on a
bed of piano textures (played by Wilson himself) that are less interesting than what is going on in
the voices. The tone of the album is predominantly inward and reflective – only the lazy swing of
"Chan Chan" changes the tempo, and I wondered whether none of the group had musical
experiences of “pivotal, life-changing significance” that involved saturnalia or wild abandon (or
even mild abandon). But this cavil aside, the disc ends in style with a touching take on “The Last
Rose of Summer” and an unapologetically soupy "What a Wonderful World". Bernard Hughes

@GrahamRickson
Dohnányi’s portentous, brilliantly scored introduction drags
us into the depths