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liberal In Search of Youkali album reviewBray/Vann/Grainger/Schofield(Chandos)The easy fluency of Bray and pianist William Vann guides us through familiar and less well known Kurt Weill songs with the haunting Youkali as the lodestar on our journey4 months agomusic
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