Download, Skalkottas (composer)

…a huge, intricate, often very busy score, brimming with ideas, its freely serial invention alluding to a spectrum of neo-classical and jazz idioms. The wind players stay admirably in tune... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2004, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Recorded with due clarity and immediacy, this release is an ideal way into a defining period of Skalkottas’s musical evolution, and an ideal introduction to his orchestral work in general. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2021 More…

BIS's Skalkottas cycle started very well and gets better with each release. The First Piano Concerto's characteristic use of a family of noterows, rather than just one, may have ignited the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Ramou navigates her way through these sometimes knotty scores, which she clearly knows inside-out, with consummate musicianship. The piano tone is warm and full although the over-resonant acoustic... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2019 More…