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- ↑ The Daily Telegraph, October 4, 1975, p.4
- ↑ Biography, Bach Cantatas website
- ↑ Biography, AllMusic
- ↑ Trax Classique – TRXC126, Discogs
- ↑ 'Cécile Chaminade' at Hyperion Records
- ↑ Piano Music of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Twenty-Four Preludes Set 1, Priory Records 449 (1996)
- ↑ Stanford Piano Music: Twenty-Four Preludes Set 2, Olympia 638 (1997)
- ↑ 'British Piano Collection Volume 1' (four CDs), Heritage HTGCD405 (2020), reviewed at MusicWeb International
- ↑ 'Truscott: Piano Sonatas, Preludes and Fugues', reviewed at MusicWeb International
- ↑ Piano Music of Trevor Hold, Heritage, HTGCD 294/5
- ↑ The Peter Jacobs Anthology: Twentieth Century British Piano Music, Heritage HTGCD159 (2021)
- ↑ An Anthology of British 20th-century Piano Music , Vols. 1-3 (1998-2000), SearchWorks catalogue entry
- ↑ Biography, Divine Arts Records
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