The Aurora Orchestra's disc, produced in collaboration with the Finzi Trust, is an anniversary tribute: "An all-instrumental CD," to quote the sleeve, "to aid wider appreciation of one of England's best-loved composers".
Key quote: With instrumental insemination, I can do things that don't happen in nature.
His washed-out love song, which serves as "Phonokinetoscope's" soundtrack, quotes the instrumental scrawls of Pink Floyd's epics for "Zabriskie Point".
On one track, "Let Go," he quotes an instrumental piece he wrote for yMusic, evoking the interchange between song and instrumental music in the Romantic tradition; think of Schubert's sampling of one of his lieder in the "Death and the Maiden" Quartet, or Mahler's reference to the "Kindertotenlieder" in his Ninth Symphony.
In the catalogue, which contains data on earthquakes from 1000 to 2009, original reports for the pre-instrumental period are quoted.
Several passages from James Rhodes's autobiography, Instrumental, which is published next week, are quoted in the supreme court judgment that lifted an injunction barring him from publishing a full account of his life.
Sir John A. Macdonald, who was instrumental in upholding Riel's sentence, is famously quoted as saying: Before his execution, Riel was reconciled with the Catholic Church, and assigned Father André as his spiritual advisor.
"They appeared after the fall of the fragments and were confirmed with instrumental diagnosis," the doctor, who was not named, was quoted as saying.
You can even hear an instrumental version of "Formation" while scrolling through exclusive images and quotes.
Using the same septet instrumental scoring as Stravinsky, the four composers cast their movements as responses to this chamber piece, occasionally quoting from it directly, or at least alluding to it.
