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EDITORIAL REVIEWS I seem to have taken my time to get to town again after the release of Piers Lane goes to town in 2013 (Hyperion CDA67967) , with the recordings on the present album split between 2015 and 2022. Not only has this new journey had its delays, the repertoire extends from the 1700s to 2019 instead of concentrating, as before, on the twentieth century, and this time it focuses very much on the dance, whether courtly, folk, ballroom, novel or even barbarous. Like its predecessor, this album contains pieces I've mainly performed as encores, and mixes the well-known with works composed specially for me, the noble and contemplative alongside the populist and humorous. In other words, it's a collection of very personal guilty pleasures, and I hope the composers involved wouldn't be too shocked by the antics of their new neighbours.