Browse: Dennehy (composer)

[Grá agus Bás]...is a powerful symbiosis of old and new: modal inflections and reflections driven forward by muscular post-minimalist patterns and processes. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2011 More…

Katherine Manley and Iarla Ó Lionáird bring tremendous colour and clarity to the storytelling. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2019 More…

This quartet’s taste in repertoire runs toward post-Minimalist composers who work with melody — and an edge. The pop-style rhythmic fury of Judd Greenstein’s “Four on the Floor” is exhilarating. — New York Times, 13th December 2017 More…

Holt’s vivid score here oscillates between furious counterpoint and passages of defiant poise…Dennehy’s post-minimalist The weather of it is at once dynamic an tender, the sweetness of his harmony... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

With a smorgasbord of aesthetic approaches...some tracks inevitably appeal more than others. Finnissy's seditious upending of a classical minuet, with dance-steps forced to trip over themselves,... — Classic FM Magazine, May 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Dennehy’s generally lyrical vocal writing is at times beautiful…Nevertheless, I wasn’t always convinced. Too often The Last Hotel lurches from naturalism into melodrama…Misgivings aside, this... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

The Hunger features an eerily spectral, hollowed-out soundscape consisting of convulsive microtonal pulsing in woodwind and brass against uneasy shifting microtonal oscillations, disembodied... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019 More…