Composers: Pessard, Sculthorpe, Falla, MacMillan, Grainger, Brahms, Barton, Vaughan Williams, Edwards
Performers: Amy Dickson, Daniel de Borah
Catalogue Number: ABC Classics 4817925

In Circles is saxophonist Amy Dickson’s homage to Australian and European folk traditions. It isn’t the type of album you can enjoy at leisure; it’s the type that contributes to a catalogue of Australian music and would do well as an educational tool. I was immediately taken aback by the mixing, which represented the timbre of the instrument in a way I’d not expected: it was echoey and French horn-like, missing those golden upper frequencies for which the saxophone is so...