“DPJ, has reimagined the classics of their combined youth in such a fashion that you first recognise the words if not the melody, then find yourself listening anew. You know the songs, have recognised the words but never before heard them with such meaning attached. Your entry point to that ideal of memory, sparking off not just the emotional recognition but the resonance of emotive memory, is quite startling. I found myself hearing standards as standards had always meant to be delivered: freshly.

And yes, this canon was not the anthem of my youth, but it never passed me by. Hearing it anew doomed nothing to fading memory, but it jumped at me with exceptional strength. This was, of course, partly due to the decision taken to include the cello. The beauty of a cello playing underneath songs which didn’t haunt but lifted, like a film score of which you become unaware until the effect of it has transformed scenes. Here, its beauty was as theatrical as it was melodic”

BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE