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"The Snow Queen works
particularly well ... one of the BBC's more distinguished opera for radio
commissions."
Tempo
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music is direct clear and
expressive; players and, I should guess, particularly singers must find
his work grateful to perform ... Ward's compositions display, at their
best, the stamp of the authentic, the 'necessary'."
Classical
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"Ward's
deeply felt response to the texts manifests itself in a thoroughly
extrovert way, unflinchingly passionate and heedless of any possible
accusations of excess." Jane
Manning on Three Sonnets to
Orpheus in her book
New
Vocal Repertoire, Volume 2
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