Browse: Dillon, J (composer)

Dillon, who has latterly worked at IRCAM, doesn’t over-egg the electronics, knowing that a light touch is more effective than pell-mell indulgence. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…

To hear this carnality in an orchestra is almost shocking. So much western classical use of the orchestral has
been manipulative or representational, it is wonderful to hear it step out on its... — The Wire More…

The book teems with subtle cross-references, like the sudden reappearance in the last volume of the
amamzingly Debussian gesture that launched the whole cycle. There are other echoes, too, from... — BBC Music Magazine More…

the album's title-work by Rebecca Saunders is an interior monologue which, thanks to Ballon's advocacy, seems to bypass the executant and travel deep within the mind and body of the instrument:... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2016 More…

[This release lends] a softness and amenability by the sheer guitar sonority, of the old, intimidating “New Complexity” movement…Brian Ferneyhough’s seven-part Kurze Schatten II seems to entail... — Sunday Times, January 2016 More…

…Dillon's music, with its rich weave of aggressive eloquence and obsessively evolving sound-patterns, is fully equal to the task of making the turbulent ritual seem real to the ears alone. The... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 More…