Browse: Dean, B - Testament

[Testament is] an evocative, powerful work, incisively played by the Bayerisches Staatsorchester under Vladimir Jurowski. Equally fresh in its impact, Symphony No. 2 is filled with vigorous vitality... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

This superb new release in BIS’s series devoted to Brett Dean takes its name of the longest piece in the collection…like everything here, it’s dispatched with breathtaking ease by the Swedish... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2016 More…

Dean creates a Berg-like soundscape in which fragments of that Symphony [Brahms 4] fleetingly or sometimes not so fleetingly swim into focus...A similarly effective tension between classic fragments... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…