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This month: EDWARD HIGGINBOTTOM Conductor

MY FINEST MOMENT

Early One Morning

The Choir of New College, Oxford/Edward Higginbottom

Erato 0630 19065 2 (1997)

I added up my New College recordings the other day and we’re on 120 albums, so it’s quite difficult to find one which stands out. Session work is demanding; you have to keep to schedule and have something decent in the can after three hours and move on,

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