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It’s all fascinating music, superbly played by both pianist Stephen Clarke and the Jack Quartet; Rădulescu’s work undoubtedly attracts devoted advocates. — The Guardian More…

[paradis] here the textures are open and spare, and this allows the sounds made by the pianos’ mechanisms themselves to come into the foreground. I find this magical and mysterious, and even... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

Roaratorio is one of Cage's most attractive larger assemblages...the piece is a landmark in the composer's later output, and a credit to all involved in its elaborate realization. — Peter Dickinson, Gramophone Magazine, 1994 More…

You hear, you enjoy, and then think about how more cavalier composers freeload off the surface of jazz...Skempton sounds like the future to me. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2011 More…

As new releases of John Cage go, this is probably about as major as it gets…Cage himself looks frail and died shortly after One’’ appeared. But what an extraordinary valedictory throw of the... — The Wire, February 2007 More…

I'd argue that no other Cage percussion disc reconnects us with the shock of how Cage questioned every cliche about music, and why people should want to create it, as powerfully. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 More…