Cypres

The performance, which was the work’s world premiere in 2015, could hardly be bettered. Mezzo-soprano Natascha Petrinsky, Viennese born, Israeli trained, scores a triumph in the title role.... — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

Komitas’s Miniatures are lively and folky, while Alécian’s Un quatuor arménien has a darker, more wistful outlook. The admirable Akhtamar Quartet seems equally at home with the demands of both. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A key theme is unity – and, from Apolline Jesupret ’s rhythmic antidespot look at Pinochet ’s Chile to Fabian Fiorini’s delicate reworking of the Scorpions’ ‘Wind of Change’, so too is the absorption... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…