"in a very clever and thoughtfully-compiled recital, Glen Cunningham and pianist Anna Tilbrook run from the Romanticism of Robert Schumann’s Burns settings to a box-fresh commission from Cunningham’s fellow Invernesian Stuart MacRae, bracketed by earlier responses to the lyrics of Robert Louis Stevenson, with side steps into Victoriana and arrangements by neglected Scots composer Claire Liddell en route ... The sequencing of the set is masterly, and the selection full of wonderful surprises ... If the whole project was built around the MacRae commission, that is no less than it deserves. It includes the longest songs on the disc, the composer using two of the well-known Songs of Travel alongside three lyrics from the more esoteric collections, Underwoods. The piano writing for Tilbrook is every bit as compelling as MacRae’s word-setting, already known from his operas to be first-class, and his choices reveal a much less familiar side of Stevenson"

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