Wergo

Worth hearing, but no real challenge to earlier recensions of Mahler’s sketches — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

This composer obviously feels things deeply and believes in traditional “expression.” But the sort of frenetic jagged eruptions one hears in the first movement are at least as much a fruit of... — Fanfare, July/August 2020 More…

Though couched in a complex style and flaunting intellectual subtexts (its cover reproducing a Gerhard Richter abstract), these works — the others being Stephan Winkler’s Von der Gewissensnot... — Sunday Times, 14th July 2019 More…

As a j’accuse aimed at the arrogance of European governments and attitudes, lab.oratorium hits home with force and a certain nervous tension between deeply felt aesthetic and moral imperatives. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2021 More…

Riskily static at one extreme, turbulently volatile at the other, the whole work has an authentically awestruck character and an infectious lack of inhibition that Eötvös usefully preserves... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2014 More…

As well as demanding that the string players employ every conventional technique, the Italian composer extends their sound world farther, both with electronics and with “found objects” applied... — The Guardian, 15th October 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The German composer is addicted to one-word, typically materialistic titles for his complex, often ethereal music...It is remarkable how expansive structures grow out of endless inchoate reiteration,... — Sunday Times, 20th June 2021 More…

the star of the album, Stravinsky apart, is undoubtedly the Pole Szymon Laks, who ended the war conducting the prisoners’ orchestra in Auschwitz...The playing in all these pieces, and in Ibert... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Barden explores the idiom exceptionally well, and indeed distinctively. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2021 More…