He keeps mentioning fellow-pianists too - Clifford Curzon, whose record of Schubert's D major Sonata is at the top of his list of favourite piano recordings; Alfred Brendel ("Have you heard his marvellous record of the Diabelli Variations? "); Artur Rubinstein, for whom he is going to conduct at the Brighton Festival in May - Beethoven and Chopin concertos.
"I think it's a marvellous record," says one of the record's two producers, Peter Dougherty, but he warns, "NWA aren't saying the violence is terrible.
As Hyde growls the suitably portentous opening line – "Thunder, thunder lightning ahead" – the excitement of hearing this marvellous record for the first time floods the venue anew.
Such shorthand descriptions are hard to avoid entirely, and music buffs might still want to play spot the influence with Skying – one reviewer detected seven in the opening song alone – but that would undersell this marvellous record, which should be every bit as exciting to a listener who knows none of those reference points.
She is fortunate, she says, that Northumbria police has a relatively good – "though not marvellous" – record on dealing with domestic abuse, being one of only a handful of forces spared scathing criticism in the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary's report on the subject last March.
Those who accept the conventional wisdom that nothing happened in pop music between Elvis and the Beatles should listen to these marvellous records – and to the outpouring of memories of a man who did the best thing a pop songwriter can do: made listeners feel they are not alone with their emotions.
Dave Simpson A highlight from Angular records' marvellous collection of obscure continental 1980s synthpop, Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics: proof positive that the best music is frequently made by people who've evidently spent as much time standing in front of mirrors trying to look "artistic" as they have actually writing songs.
I wish we could have recorded this marvellous flower of the moment.
Either way, this hypnotic four-track record is marvellous.
A century ago, spectators in Stockholm admired Donald Lippincott, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, as he set the event's first official world record in "the marvellous time of 10 3/5 seconds" (10.6sec).
