Jeremy Kingston

…The musicians give good value, although nothing in Stephen Warbeck’s score equals the fascinating opening moments when Zi Lan Liao gives a swirling solo on her Cheng.  This exotic instrument can be described as a harp stretched into an oblong and laid flat on a board curved like an upturned miniature punt.  She sweeps her fingers over the strings as though repelling the surface of a cattle trough, and high clear notes come twinkling from it.