Waltzes in Disorder (1998)
Brahms's delicious Liebeslieder Walzer (Love Song Waltzes) is music that delights in the pure pleasure of singing, a collection of waltzes that tug at the heart with their ceaseless insinuating lilt.

"Alston's sensitivity to musical nuance is in full flood here, reaching a place of utter intoxication...Brahms, the dancers, the audience, were never better served"
Independent on Sunday

Red Run (1998)

Red Run embraces the spirit of its atmospheric score, Red Run, nine songs for eleven instruments by the German composer, Heiner Goebbels. The eleven instruments include electric guitar giving a rock-influenced tinge and piano and brass bursting into passages of all-out jazz - but these episodes shift gear sharply into darker, more shadowy spaces.

"From this edgy soundscape Alston's dance re-discovers the tense, unpredictable energy that marks his greatest work"
The Guardian

Brisk Singing (1997)

Brisk Singing celebrates the music of Jean Philippe Rameau, genius of the French Baroque. Alston has created an uplifting work carried along by the warmth and lightness of spirit in Rameau’s music, surely some of the most joyous ever written for dance

 "Alston’s response to the helium-buoyed rhythms of Rameau’s Les Boreades is all joy"
Independent on Sunday

Light Flooding into Darkened Rooms (1997)

The piece delves into the inner feelings, the private thoughts, of individuals in intimate encounter. The work is accompanied by lute and mandolin - sublime pieces by the 17th century master Denis Gaultier and Ars Brevis, a contemporary work by Japanese composer Jo Kondo.

"A lovely portrait of lovers' intimacy which captures the turbulent privacy of the world of Vermeer paintings....Art, dance and music make subtle bedfellows in this tantalising work"
The Daily Telegraph