Browse: Goehr (composer)

it is testament to the inventiveness of Stephen Disley as a player that he makes the accompaniments so vividly varied at the same time as homogenous with the choral texture...If there is any... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2013 More…

Meredith’s style doesn’t fit into a particular category…Aurora Orchestra expertly handles the cross-rhythms and changing time signatures…[Goehr’s] Schoenbergian melodic language is beautifully... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

…this outstanding issue celebrates 20 years of carols newly commissioned for the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The two CDs are stuffed with memorable settings - Jonathan Dove's... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Knussen directs performances that are as far from routine as it's possible to get, with wonderfully vivid results. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This beautifully detailed recording on the pioneering NMC label provides a chance to explore further this exquisite score. Ruby Philogene singing the title role heads a deft and committed cast... — The Observer More…

Goehr's abrupt sometimes taken a few listens to grasp, but its lean textures and evocative instrumental colours are ideal for Oliver Knussen's meticulous ear for delight and delight in sonority.... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

In everything from the Goldbergs to Takemitsu – taking in the Diabellis along the way – he illuminates music I should know better. The lucidity of his thought, translated to the keyboard with... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2020 More…

This innovative recording is musically and dramatically well-centred; well worth a listen. — Early Music Review, October 2014 More…