Janos Gereben:

>One of the more interesting CD liner notes around...

> Dame Avril Piston was born in 1920.  She [studied] ...viola with
> ...Tertis ...[and later returned] to Britain for a difficult gender
> changing operation ...[and later yet] retired to Faccombe,
> Hampshire in 1996 where she lives with her large collection of
> artefacts and English viola music.  This is her first solo CD.

I can't find any reference at all to her via the usual music shops, as
soloist or otherwise, and wonder how recently this one was released:
after all, by this account Piston's nearing her mid-eighties.

Incidentally, did Piston become a she, or was it a case of opting for
he-dom?

Bert Bailey