Browse: Cutler, J (composer)

This is an essential purchase: Cutler may not make contemporary music loveable again, but he does make it unignorable and that is what really matters. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2008 More…

Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii (2019), the title track to Joe Cutler’s latest release for NMC, is a resplendent, witty and otherworldly saxophone concerto, expertly performed here by its commissioners...Clowes... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

[Karembeu’s Guide] is finely played by Emulsion Sinfonietta – as are all these works – never glossing over textural intricacies and confirming the regard in which Cutler is held. For those yet... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019 More…

This is a very superior “sampler”...Outstanding, I kept finding, was the first-movement extract from Wood’s Symphony (BBC SO under Andrew Davis): brooding, post-Schoenbergian vehemence with a... — Sunday Times, 30th March 2014 More…

With a smorgasbord of aesthetic approaches...some tracks inevitably appeal more than others. Finnissy's seditious upending of a classical minuet, with dance-steps forced to trip over themselves,... — Classic FM Magazine, May 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…