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Saunders explores the sculptural properties of sound, focusing on contrasting and complementary timbre rather than traditional harmony...Juliet Fraser is the spiralling soloist in Skin; swaggering... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The English pastoral tradition appears [with] the extended opening soliloquy of her 2007 Cello Concerto rising and hovering like a lark ascending. Snippets of Bachian figuration, Britten-ish... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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…

Howard Skempton's music sounds deceptively easy. Openness to simplicity is one of the hardest qualities to nurture in music, and it is the heart and soul of Skempton's creativity. Exaudi is... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These recordings sit on the edge of discomfort, relishing in the stark contrasts of timbres available to an orchestra. Oscillating between these extremes, this is music-making at its most dynamic. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Contemporary composers sink or swim in a sea of perplexingly diverse memories and stimuli – a condition that has been particularly acute since the 1970s. These chamber works from the 1980s show... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Both of these works [the Moeran and the Rawsthorne] benefit, as does the recital as a whole, from superbly responsive playing by Harriet Mackenzie and Philippa Mo - who project the music's often... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2013 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…

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…