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The disc reflects a remarkably productive recent period in the composer's life...The music's broadly harmonic conception also takes the music occasionally into unexpected areas, including barbershop,... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2013 More…

Listening to this disc is rather like entering a retreat. There's a rapt, contemplative atmosphere around these 28 miniatures written between 1959 and 1967 as an attempt to express St John of... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Greece’s most eloquent living composer — Time Out More…

Under Jeff Reilly's virtuosic control, the bass clarinet possesses an aloof, almost mystical timbre comparable to the duduk flute used in Middle Eastern music, aptly representing the Old Testament... — The Independent, 5th March 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Retelling Hans Christian Andersen's tale of the little match girl who freezes to death on Christmas Eve as a parable of modern society's inhumanity, while drawing parallels with the fate of... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2004, 4 out of 5 stars More…

For a sampling of how things have changed you need to no further than the Prelude to the First Suite where on this new recording, come the second half of the movement, Demenga speeds along the... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018 More…

After the tonal luminosity of the Bagatelles, the piercing dissonances at the opening of the Elegy exert a particularly poignant impact, as does The Messenger where the interaction between the... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…