Fires of London

There had, of course, been other fires. Four hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. Yet the signs from the heavens in 1666 were ominous: comets, pyramids of flame, monsters born in city slums. Then, in the early hours of 2 September, a small fire broke out on the ground floor of a baker's house in Pudding Lane. In five days that small fire would devastate the third largest city in the Western world.

Schizophonia is the 1975 album by Mike Batt with The London Symphony Orchestra. This was unofficially released in 2000 by Limited 200 (or Limited 200 Limited) for the fans.

The Genius of British Art The history of British art is the story of Britain. For centuries, artists have reflected our times and shaped the way we see ourselves. This series presents six passionate polemics on how British art makes us who we are today and gives us a vision of ourselves.

While nominating Elliott Carter for the "Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for Eminence in Music" in 1971, Aaron Copland stated that "Elliott Carter is one of America's most distinguished creative artist in any field." Two important pieces of Carter's composition are now available as a re-release on this CD: In Sleep, In Thunder and Triple Duo. "In Sleep, In Thunder" is a setting of six poems by the late Robert Lowell and composed "in memory of the poet and friend". Black comic parodies and ice-cold irony determine the atmosphere of the six songs. For Carter the way out of the black world of the Lowell cycle was "Triple Duo", a work whose comic mood appears in its very opening where the players are caught in the act of warming up before beginning.