An exciting new recording of Liszt’s extraordinary piano transcription of Beethoven’s most popular Pastoral Symphony performed here by one of Britain’s favourite young pianists; Performed on a historically fascinating fortepiano, one of a collection of historical keyboard instruments housed in the stunning Restoration House in Rochester, inspiration for Miss Havisham’s house in Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations; Booklet notes have been written by Ashley himself, with a forward by the redoubtable Jools Holland, a huge fan of this symphony since childhood who, in his own words “…had been waiting most of my life to experience [this]”