'THE HARROWING OF HELL'
Soprano: 3 Clarinets (Matrix ensemble) 1975
(Jane Manning) but in a well-organised, unhackneyed manner.
Nicholas Kenyon. Daily Telegraph.

'THE MUSIC OF CHARLES CHAPLIN'
Orchestrations for Chaplin's centenary CD 1989
"..a fine example of 'traditional' Hollywood film music plus some clever arrangements which suggests the Walton of Facade and the Kurt Weill of his German years, and that Weill sound is heard in 'Foxtrot' from the Idle Class..... The key influence in making this selection so interesting must be the arrangements by Francis Shaw, which make even a trite weepie like 'Smile' sound like the lovely lush Hollywood sound of the Alfred Newman and Herbert Stothart days. Nice!
Denis Argent. Hi-fi News and Record Review. Sept. 1989.

'THE SELFISH GIANT' Children's opera 1972
"The orchestral score is picturesque and descriptive; the strings have some teasing creeping glissandi there are magical effects produced by the quiet mosaic of the percussion department,
and the instrumental picture changes as the stage picture moves..... The end is beautiful, with the music drifting away into silence." Kenneth Loveland. South Wales Argus

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