Browse: CD, Cage (composer)

you can’t but be stunned by the fearless skill of Sigvards Klava’s choir as they navigate the most jagged, fragmented notes and pitches – the musical equivalent of climbing Mount Everest just... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Huelgas Ensemble use two or more voices per part in accordance with the size of Daser’s own court chapel choir and this larger ensemble creates a rich, wellbalanced sound which at times I... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…

Fuelled by a trip to Tunis, the two inner movements are imbued with ‘all the strangeness of Africa’ according to Antheil, and Kopatchinskaja is in thrall to their mercurial fantasy. She’s also... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Between the poles, Alexei Lubimov finds an introspection and immediacy that makes the scattered lengthy silences as disruptive as the sounds they appear to contradict, leaving the listener as... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…Saariaho's combination of instruments with live electronics comes up as fresh as ever… it's… the vibrant quality of the playing from Norway's premiere new music quartet - never ugly, even when... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Intégrales proves an energetic opener for this survey of the city from the eminent, Paris-based Ensemble Intercontemporain, lucidly conducted by their music director, Matthias Pintscher. Likewise... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Glass is a touchstone and his works are sprinkled throughout the programme. Diluka’s rubato in Metamorphosis One is effective, as is the impressionistic touch in the Opening from Glassworks. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Signe Asmussen is the dramatic soprano in Ginastera’s Cantata para América mágica — treatments, often tumultuous, of pre-Columbian texts. By contrast, Cage’s First Construction (in Metal) is... — Sunday Times, 14th February 2021 More…