Wergo

Worth hearing, but no real challenge to earlier recensions of Mahler’s sketches — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

As well as demanding that the string players employ every conventional technique, the Italian composer extends their sound world farther, both with electronics and with “found objects” applied... — The Guardian, 15th October 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This composer obviously feels things deeply and believes in traditional “expression.” But the sort of frenetic jagged eruptions one hears in the first movement are at least as much a fruit of... — Fanfare, July/August 2020 More…

Though couched in a complex style and flaunting intellectual subtexts (its cover reproducing a Gerhard Richter abstract), these works — the others being Stephan Winkler’s Von der Gewissensnot... — Sunday Times, 14th July 2019 More…

A fine introduction to the composer, the disc shows Poppe’s music as pan-European in style, mixing German formal nous with Franco-Italian luscious colouristic beauty. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2023 More…

As a j’accuse aimed at the arrogance of European governments and attitudes, lab.oratorium hits home with force and a certain nervous tension between deeply felt aesthetic and moral imperatives. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2021 More…

The Japanese composer’s music explores modernist complexities as much as it draws on Takemitsu’s legacy with its exquisite sound world — Sunday Times, 1st September 2013 More…

The thrill for Feldman aficionados is hearing our man knead his language into malleable Beckettian dough: textures, harmonic anchors and melodic inflections that recur throughout these pieces... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2016 More…