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describes it as a "superb, luscious piece", and musicologist Simon John
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Le mauvais jardinier: A Reassessment of the Myths and Music of
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hearing the piece that same year, wrote: "This is no garden. But a spirit's
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Opus sorabjianum: The Life and Works of
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