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- ↑ Obituary Terence Weil The Independent, William Waterhouse, 9 March 1995
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- ↑ Birtwistle timeline by Boosey & Hawkes,
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- ↑ Davies Premiere All Music Guide, Eugene Chadbourne
- ↑ Biography Neil Sanders Archived 24 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine Sotone Historic Recordings
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- ↑ wind quintet review Rob Barnett, May 2008
- ↑ Ravel review William Hedley, April 2009, quote: The Melos Ensemble recorded Ravel’s exquisite Introduction and Allegro for L'Oiseau-Lyre in 1961, ... this performance dates from 1967, and Osian Ellis was once again the harpist. There is nothing to choose between the two performances: they are both absolutely marvellous.
- ↑ Ireland review John France, August 2007
- ↑ Birtwistle review William Hedley, June 2009, quote: Still a new piece when recorded in 1965, it receives a stunning performance here from the Melos Ensemble under Lawrence Foster.
- ↑ Berkeley review Michael Cookson, May 2008, quote: Berkeley wrote his three movement Sextet for Clarinet, Horn and String Quartet, Op. 47 in 1954 for the Melos Ensemble.
- ↑ Sir Malcolm Arnold (born 1921) / The Collection musicweb-international.com
- ↑ "Recordings in search of". recordings.online.fr.
- ↑ Gramophone Archive
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- ↑ Prokofiev Shostakovich Gramophone
- ↑ Original Masters – Janet Baker, Arkivmusic.com
- ↑ Nicholas Ward (*1952) City of London Sinfonia
- ↑ Sylvie Gazeau (*1950) Archived 23 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ De Peyer and Pryor page Archived 23 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Obituary Iona Brown (1941–2004) The Independent, Margaret Campbell, 11 June 2004
- ↑ Interview Keith Harvey Internet Cello Society
- ↑ Program Archive ORF (in German)
