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Monk Feldman's own music, perhaps unsurprisingly, owes much to that of her late husband though it is contained within much more modest time frames than his own final works...It's all quite beautiful... — The Guardian, 26th July 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Royer elicits bird-like squeaks and creaking-door squeals to accompany strummed string glissandi, jangling bells and fragments of voices, all emerging and submerging within the mix like flotsam... — The Independent, 23rd January 2016 More…

One of Xenakis's achievements was in evoking a recognisable (though never traditional) sonic context, against which sound could express itself in directly musical terms. Thus we get the Homeric... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2006 More…

Their physical impact remains undimmed, with the former’s crackling percussive continuum finding contrast in the latter’s onslaught of drums in music whose methodical precision is outweighed... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2018 More…

The work of American experimentalists, especially Cage's music of the 1940s, gave Zimmermann his starting point...The musical means may change...but the pared-down, almost self-denying character... — The Guardian, 29th November 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…