Browse: SACD, Dean, B (composer)

Big, hymnlike tunes emerge from straining and urgent textures, and like so much Finnish music, this is not afraid to look into the abyss. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024 More…

Most bewitching is the soulfulness of Hardenberger’s response as Francesconi pays poetic tribute to that real-life hero of the trumpet and more, Miles Davis. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Brett Dean’s Voices of Angels is a very substantial work, making his customary detailed sonic investigations into the ensemble’s possible combinations of instruments, and doing so with a tremendous... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2020 More…

This superb new release in BIS’s series devoted to Brett Dean takes its name of the longest piece in the collection…like everything here, it’s dispatched with breathtaking ease by the Swedish... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2016 More…

Some purists may take exception to Dausgaard’s tempos or dynamics here and there, but the Bach performances, for the most part, are crisp, lively and expressive, and the BIS recording vivid,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Dean creates a Berg-like soundscape in which fragments of that Symphony [Brahms 4] fleetingly or sometimes not so fleetingly swim into focus...A similarly effective tension between classic fragments... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…