Browse: Riley (composer)

Glass is a touchstone and his works are sprinkled throughout the programme. Diluka’s rubato in Metamorphosis One is effective, as is the impressionistic touch in the Opening from Glassworks. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The pulse is discreetly shunted towards the background, utterly charming the senses with an often delicate mechanism of light pizzicato strings and mallet percussion...This performance deals... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2016 More…

The impression given is of a mercurial improvisation by Silverman, an ideal narrator for what amounts to a kaleidoscopic musical autobiography…Riley revels in his gargantuan resources, particularly... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There’s nothing random about his composing: Riley’s leading inspirations, the cycles of Indian music and the canons of Bach, underpin each work…[The Wheel and Mythic Birds Waltz] has a raw, dancing... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Dubbed Minimalism's most seminal work, In C might more accurately be credited with kick-starting interest in repetitive minimalism/trance music. Intriguingly, its now-celebrated… Riley provides... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Zofo achieve] depth and variety in the loping pianissimo sections of Cinco de Mayo, and find a pleasing fluency in the rhapsodic twists and turns of Jaztine. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…

Albums for electric viola don’t come along that often, but Pendlebury believes the instrument has an exciting voice. While there’s a pleasing tanginess to Reich’s multitracked Electric Counterpoint,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 3 out of 5 stars More…