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Without [the accompanying visuals] the music does sometimes seem thin. But the longeurs are outweighed by moments of sudden grandeur and drama, and a fascinating atmosphere of dark menace. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Heinz Holliger repeatedly explores the fragile boundaries between creativity and madness… Gesänge der Frühe, from 1987… is a strange hybrid of documentary an gradiloquent oratorio, whose carefully... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Piano music seldom comes so bare and unadorned: the usual recipe is a single-note melody in the right hand with a single-note accompaniment in the bass…The soundworld of a grand piano could... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

If you liked Uri Caine’s updating of the Goldbergs, you should enjoy ‘Il Pergolese’, a homage to Pergolesi that reimagines his music in the context of contemporary improvisation. Melodic lines... — Early Music Today More…