Beginnings: Three Early Songs (2010)

Luxuriating in a post-Wagnerian Romanticism tinged with Expressionist intensity, the songs were lit by the joy of youth and shaped by the cool-headed wisdom of experience. Echoes of the post-war British musical scene were surrounded by more pungent, colouristic harmonies perhaps indicative of a developing creative talent in the 1950s gradually assimilating the music of Schoenberg and his pupils. The overall effect was utterly entrancing: Wood achieved that rare degree of poignancy peculiar to the resolutely unsentimental.

[A] ravishing and invigorating little collection of songs.

...an evocative reworking of three of his early songs.

...fascinating...

...this is the measure of Wood's skill.