To have been able to call upon artists for whom you have great admiration, to play such important roles in the making of return to the center of the earth has beeen a very speacil privilege To work again with the london symphony orchestra, under the trememendous guidance of david snell, was an honour difficult to put into words, and my longstanding association with guy protheroe and the english chamber choir is just as exciting for me now as it was when we first met twenty-five years ago