Browse: Sciarrino (composer)

The title 'Caprices' belies the serious rapport which Arditti nurtured over decades with Carter, Nunes, Boulez and Sciarrino…The works, too, are hardly whimsical but represent a quarter-century... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Though Mönkemeyer’s playing has an evident sense of period, he’s not performance practice, he’s not hidebound by the imperatives of the time-honoured treatises. He revels in Paganini’s honeyed... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

This is a deeply thought-through, bewitchingly rendered succession of interpretations…This is also one of those rare albums truly conceived as a whole listen from start to finish…Whatever Silverstein... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018 More…

Bieri’s control and expressivity in Sciarrino’s haunting solo Let Me Die Before I Wake is astonishing. He’s a soulful communicator in Brahms’s elegiac Quintet, too. Meta4 provide sumptuous support. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Sublimely controlled, Barenboim throws down the expressive gauntlet with playing as subtle as it is high-voltage and apparently – paradoxically – on the edge of reason. Underpinning the whole... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Il gionale della necropoli (2000) for accordion and orchestra is fully matured Sciarrino… The WDR SO play this testing music precisely and tell its story well… — Gramophone Magazine, February 2009 More…