Bert Bailey wrote:

>...  Rather, if you're referring to the 1944-born Thomas, I know
>him from a 19+ min concerto for recorder and orchestra, the title
>piece on Michala Petri's CD "Moonchild's Dream" (Kamu cond.  the
>English Chamber Orch; RCA Victor D 163891).  It's a nice work,
>though not my rave on this CD with impressive works by Malcolm
>Arnold, Gary Kulesha (b 1954), Asger Lund Christiansen, and, by
>Vagn Holmboe, a Concerto for Recorder, String orchestra, Celesta
>and Vibraphone -- in my view, a particularly interesting work.

Petri is an amazing artist.  It's simply incredible the range of expression
she can wring from a recorder.  Unfortunately, it appears this CD is now
out of print.  Classical Net reviewed it twice:

   http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/r/rca62543a.html
   http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/r/rca62543b.html

BTW, the catalog number given above is applicable to the BMG music club.
The RCA catalog number is 09026-62543-2.  Excerpts from this disc can
be found on an RCA release in their "Artists of the Century" series.

   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000J916/classicalnetA/

Perhaps "Moonchild's Dream" will be reissued at a bargain price at some
point in the future.

Dave
http://www.classical.net/