Wergo

Dramatically the piece is a fusion of a Japanese Noh play with a west African legend, delivered as part incantation, part declamation, with a percussive score of glinting, pulsing rhythms and... — The Guardian, 8th September 2022More…

This is a masterful disc of challenging music that brims with the excitement obvious in its creation and execution. The music and the playing are completely matched, both rife with intensity... — Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2023More…

an ambitious cycle of cycles. Hodges brings to it a brilliant expertise. The canonic effect is more abstract than in, say, Nancarrow’s player-piano studies, but is captivating nonetheless. — Sunday Times, 19th November 2017More…

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 starsMore…

Zimmermann's searing melodrama is based on an 18th-century play, but its emphasis on social decadence and militaristic brutalisation has obvious 20th-century relevance. All the singers cope... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2008More…

For all their density, velocity and spiky intensity, Nancarrow's scores cannot conceal his fundamental musicality, inventiveness and lyricism, nor a deep-seated classicism. The Arditti Quartet... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 4 out of 5 starsMore…