GLASS

Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata; The Hours – excerpts

Amy Dickson (saxophone), Catherine Milledge (piano); Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/mikel Toms

Sony 88985411942 56 mins

The Australian soprano saxophonist Amy Dickson’s first dalliance with the motif-driven music of Philip Glass was an arrangement of his Violin Concerto. Like other Glassian arrangers such as harpists Lavinia Meijer and Floraleda

Sacchi, Dickson has had to develop bespoke techniques to make the