Gerald Barry has earned an international reputation for music of great subtlety and invention. This is heard in Of Queen’s Gardens, derived from his opera The Intelligence Park, Chevaux-de-frise, drawing from material from the wrecked ships of the Spanish Armada and the ballet Sur les pointes, commissioned by Bremen City Ballet. Not music for the faint-hearted, Barry’s work is couched in a style that is forceful and gripping, and fascinatingly original in its wide terms of reference.