Browse: Casken (composer)

The setting is for all-male vocal quartet — the immaculate Hilliard Ensemble — and a small instrumental ensemble of wind, percussion and harp. The music is at once ancient and modern. There... — Financial Times, 19th July 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Among the highlights are Mark-Anthony Turnage's unsettling Black Milk (a setting of Paul Celan's Todesfuge, where jazz singer Ian Shaw's grainy vocals are appropriately curdling) and Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade’s... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, March 2022 More…

…this outstanding issue celebrates 20 years of carols newly commissioned for the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The two CDs are stuffed with memorable settings - Jonathan Dove's... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

A sense of occasion permeates this recital...Some technical mishaps, but impeccable musicianship. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The orchestra shows off its own credentials in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, which starts at a terrific lick, and is incredibly exciting. It takes a little while to settle in rhythmic detail, but... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

As so often in Casken's evocative but rigorous music, the inspiration for Orion Over Farne (1984-86) is Northumberland – the Farne Islands – as well as Greek myth...A disc of vitality and contrast,... — The Observer, 4th May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…