Browse: Nicolas Hodges (piano)

Bernstein's text makes oblique manoeuvres round the themes of Benjamin's work, and Ferneyhough sets them to complex yet frequently beautiful music, a mixture of tough and tender modernism — The Observer More…

When in 2000 violinist Jennifer Koh first encountered the music of Kaija Saariaho, she felt an immediate affinity with her unique synaesthetic soundworld. Since then, the pair have developed... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue... — Sunday Times, 7th December 2022 More…

It is hard to imagine a closer collaboration...There are moments of calm, but much of this music captures an intense beauty through finely wrought ideas...As well as making for a compelling spectacle... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performances are dynamic, the juxtapositions of works illuminating in a sidelong way: this is the kind of rewarding work this ensemble’s East Anglian and London audiences have come to expect. — The Guardian, 17th November 2022 More…