Browse: Kidane (composer)

The album brings together ten, seemingly disparate composers between whom Shibe traces a journey that’s as unsettling as it is exquisite and profoundly searching, steeped in a kind of weightless... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Titular track The Spark Catchers was recorded at the BBC Proms in 2017. Hannah Kendall’s sound whirlpool takes its inspiration from Lemn Sissay’s poem of the same name. There is an itchy brooding... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Azkoul and his group feel fresh, dissolving a lot of conventions in both programming and performance. Not everything works, but ‘Through the Night’ proposes a model for a viable, youthful future... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024 More…

Throughout the programme, well recorded in a Copenhagen church, Petri plays with immaculate tuning and finger technique, crisp tonguing and well-shaed melodic lines; Esfahani matches her with... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…