Browse: Musgrave (composer)

Ventris brings absolute technical assurance and a vivid sense of line...Among the many excellent more contemporary works, Amanda Feery’s Boreal s especially powerful...In all, beautifully performed... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

At 90, Thea Musgrave is a force of nature, her joy in life and music radiating through her varied, unpredictable works. They share a fresh sense of the dramatic, a quirky way of offsetting unexpected... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Georgia Rogers’s York Minster uses pitches derived from the building’s acoustic fingerprint; if that sounds dry and scientific, the result is a haunting processional, giving a sense of the vast... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mary is a role fit for any prima donna. Ashley Putnam is magnetically convincing, maintaining strength throughout, yet never missing the Queen’s vulnerability, and soaring through the devastating... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 4 out of 5 stars/3 out of 5 stars More…

This is the most exciting debut disc to come my way for some time...It will only take the opening bars of "Alborada" to convince you what a fine Ravel player she is...while Thea Musgrave's specially... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2011 More…

Christopher Bell’s beautifully assembled programme is completed by Biebl’s attractive setting of the Ave Maria. In addition to their impeccable tuning, vocal balance and tone quality, you can... — Choir & Organ, May 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The exultant, dramatic Rorate Coeli from 1973...is by far the best showcase for Harold Rosenbaum’s bold and fearless New York Virtuoso Singers, singing lustily and unaccompanied, but elsewhere... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 2 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…