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This month: RICHARD BOOTHBY Viol player, Fretwork

MY FINEST MOMENT

George Benjamin Upon Silence

Susan Bickley (soprano); Fretwork et al

Nimbus NI5505 (1997)

This is the most challenging recording we did – and the one that I’m most proud of having succeeded in. It’s a masterpiece and it was an extraordinary business working with George, right from the conception of the piece, through to rehearsing it and performing it several times before we got to record it.

We had done no contemporary music before we encountered it and so it was a very steep hill to