NMC

These six superbly assured works…reveal the same, lacerating frankness in diverse chamber contexts as Venables’s groundbreaking opera, 4:48 Psychosis…Most graphically urgent is Illusions…Supported... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The Tredegar Town Band revels [the Occasional Overture’s] winning combination of nonchalance and bustling virtuosity, its optimistic vision of post-war reconstruction complementing the often... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Watts not only succeeds in negotiating a very wide variety of styles, moods and approaches but also imparts each song with a keen sense of its own identity…Iain Burnside’s impeccable accompaniment... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019More…

[Karembeu’s Guide] is finely played by Emulsion Sinfonietta – as are all these works – never glossing over textural intricacies and confirming the regard in which Cutler is held. For those yet... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019More…

It’s not rare these days for composers to engage with pop and rock (cf Turnage’s Beyoncé quotes), but it is rare to hear that influence used with such sensitivity and intelligence…Bennett’s... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2021More…

Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii (2019), the title track to Joe Cutler’s latest release for NMC, is a resplendent, witty and otherworldly saxophone concerto, expertly performed here by its commissioners...Clowes... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

The piece might be heard as a ‘processional’ in Harrison Birtwistle’s sense – a slow progress through a sonic landscape, with the emphasis on the fact of journeying rather than on a destination... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2025More…

Prepare to be dazzled, or dazed. Zubin Kanga’s take on the future of the piano may be an acquired taste; fascinating developments in technology proffer some entertaining results, and while there’s... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 3 out of 5 starsMore…