Nonesuch

Adès takes Liszt’s legacy of demonic harmony and develops it further away some of the orchestral layers to reveal recorded voices from the congregation at the Great Ades Synagogue in Jerusalem,... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

Unlike much contemporary music, Shaw’s compositions exemplify what Simon Rattle long ago said about John Adams’s essence – that there’s always the sense of ‘moving forward in space’…The sophistication... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Shaw’s haunting, energetic music has a vigorous quality, and the composer’s words are a lively guide to listening. A violinist herself, she writes idiomatically for string quartet forces, relishing... — The Guardian, 15th October 2022More…

Finley ‘owns’ the characterisation of J Robert Oppenheimer…and Julia Bullock’s Kitty [is] the most ardent possible. All else is compelling on every level, with superb British support from Brindley... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The influence of Ives can be heard in the shifting layers; once a funeral march, now a Fourth of July celebration. As Dame Shirley, Julia Bullock is on scintillating form, particularly as she... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

Reich's concept of an assisted afterlife ascent is imbued with complication. Rather than represent the climb through the more musically obvious scales, Reich instead opts for hazier melodic... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2025, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The tracks for voice and piano are a highlight. Bullock’s performance of ‘City Called Heaven’, a traditional Black spiritual in an arrangement by Hall Johnson, is quite something...The jazz-based... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

It ’s plain that The only one is among the final works of this brilliantly influential composer. There’s no sense of waning powers nor any loss of iconoclastic spirit in its unnervingly surreal... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Land of Winter is typically oblique while being utterly direct – and wonderfully subtle, with a palette that combines Dennehy’s keen poetic awareness of his Irish roots with his fine, spectral... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2024, 5 out of 5 starsMore…