Full Circle

2013 release performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra and featuring Soprano Elin Manahan Thomas as soloist. The album sees Adrian Munsey and Andrew Powell collaborating 45 years after they first met. Munsey and Powell's friendship dates back to the late 1960s when they were both undergraduates at King's College, Cambridge. After university the two worked together briefly on several recording sessions, and then went their separate ways to pursue successful, multi-faceted careers. At the beginning of 2011 Andrew and Adrian got back in touch; almost five decades after they first met, Andrew and Adrian decided to work together on a joint album. Andrew had heard some of Adrian's music, which he found intriguing and it was then Adrian's turn to be intrigued when he heard the result of Andrew developing his music and combining it with his own. 'It seems like only 24 hours ago that I first met Andrew,' says Adrian. 'In a curious way those far-off days seem more real than the present. Working together on such a fascinating collaborative project proved to be the ideal way of bridging the gap.'