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Ayres's approach appears to reflect Mahler's wish to include everything, but in its episodic spirit Ayres's music comes across as Janacek for the 21st century and, like both composers, it is... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The premiere of Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto at the 2001 Proms cemented his reputation and transformed him at the age of 25 from a hugely promising talent into a composer of real stature... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Meredith’s style doesn’t fit into a particular category…Aurora Orchestra expertly handles the cross-rhythms and changing time signatures…[Goehr’s] Schoenbergian melodic language is beautifully... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The first ideas for the Third Concerto for Orchestra came during a trip through South America: there are sound pictures of Lake Titicaca, riotous New Year's Day celebrations in the Bay of Bahia,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Georgia Rogers’s York Minster uses pitches derived from the building’s acoustic fingerprint; if that sounds dry and scientific, the result is a haunting processional, giving a sense of the vast... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, 4 out of 5 stars 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…

this heartfelt setting of Anna Akhmatova's blistering condemnation of Stalinist atrocities still packs an enormous punch...The Requiem grips from the start...Phyllis Bryn-Julson is on strong... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Britten's short period with the GPO Film Unit and other similar organisations proved to be key training for his musico-dramatic skills. The performances, by the BCMG and assorted choirs and... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…