Not a reissue as such of Tippett's solo piano debut. Instead, as no master tape exists, Discus owner Martin Archer, in a painstaking act of dedication, digitally recreated the album from 600 minutes of live recordings of Tippett's Dutch tour patched over a YouTube dubbed original vinyl recording. If that sounds like a Frankenstein monster, fear not, it's more the re-blossoming of a long dormant rose. Or oak, as Tippett twice visits the folk melody of ‘Totworth Oak’, though he soon transcends the tune with his massive chording, ocean-wide sense of dynamics and wrists of iron that allow him to repeat hot forged figures and trills with an unremitting, unswerving attack. With different pianos at different venues, there is a variation in tonality and ambience, but that adds to the overall richness of the sound quality, the narrative of the tour, as well of each cut. And that is Tippett's gift to the listener, that even in the most expressionistic passages, there's an organic storytelling arc to each piece, even within the epic 20-minute ‘Steel Yourself. This is improvised but not avant-garde music that disappears up its own arch. It's music with a heart and soul that can barely contain itself. But it does, just.