Firsova, A

Among the highlights are Mark-Anthony Turnage's unsettling Black Milk (a setting of Paul Celan's Todesfuge, where jazz singer Ian Shaw's grainy vocals are appropriately curdling) and Ninfea... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, March 2022 More…

Art and poetry infuse this intricate, powerful and beautifully-performed disc…Her richly-textured compositions take flight from a kaleidoscopic range of extra-musical sources…Firsova’s scores... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Elena Firsova's For Alissa, sounding like a curious cocktail of late Scriabin and Messiaen, was inspired by the Corelli Variations; while Dmitri Smirnov's Blake Sonata, with its exciting second... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015 More…

Of the three contemporary works featured, Matthew Martin's is technically the most ambitious...It's an absorbing, highly accomplished piece of vocal writing, tailor-made to stretch a choir of... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…