Presto Recordings of the Year, Glass, P (composer)

Ólafsson’s interpretations inhabit a unique, distinct and extraordinary world all their own...[he] possesses that rare gift of illuminating a familiar work in unexpected ways, revealing hidden... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2017More…

This is a highly considered collection of performances, with close attention paid to phrasing, articulation and voicing. Lapwood has successfully delivered an album that cements her status as... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

This is an achievement on a pretty spectacular new level, and the range of musical sensibility she demonstrates here is vast...her rhythmic sense [in the Ligeti] keeps the music aloft and totally... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2024, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The four movements [of Glass's American Four Seasons] are interspersed with a prelude and three short 'songs' for solo violin, which bring further textural variety to the party, thrown with... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015More…

This new arrangement by Simone Menezes – here conducting the Philharmonia Zürich – preserves the epic scale of Vi l l a-Lobos ’s revised work, renosing it into a more practical 45-minute symphonic... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

Its four principal vocalists – Kate Moran is vocally and visually particularly arresting – and choir cope admirably with the fiendish demands of Glass’s now trademark repetitions of solfege,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The static tableaux are as much art installation as music theatre, and need to be seen rather than just heard — Financial Times, October 2016More…