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Listening to this disc is rather like entering a retreat. There's a rapt, contemplative atmosphere around these 28 miniatures written between 1959 and 1967 as an attempt to express St John of... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Under Jeff Reilly's virtuosic control, the bass clarinet possesses an aloof, almost mystical timbre comparable to the duduk flute used in Middle Eastern music, aptly representing the Old Testament... — The Independent, 5th March 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Retelling Hans Christian Andersen's tale of the little match girl who freezes to death on Christmas Eve as a parable of modern society's inhumanity, while drawing parallels with the fate of... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2004, 4 out of 5 stars More…

For a sampling of how things have changed you need to no further than the Prelude to the First Suite where on this new recording, come the second half of the movement, Demenga speeds along the... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018 More…

In Britten's Suite...Perenyi skilfully reconciles its vividly characterised joined-up miniatures within a bigger picture...Of Perenyi's performances, it's his Ligeti that steals the show. Not... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…