CD, Adams, J (composer)

Hammond casts her net with a flairfulness and acuity ‘rich in contrast’ (to purloin Sofia Gubaidulina’s description of her 1963 Chaconne which, under Hammond’s exhilaratingly determined fingers,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) More…

There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue... — Sunday Times, 7th December 2022 More…

Glass is a touchstone and his works are sprinkled throughout the programme. Diluka’s rubato in Metamorphosis One is effective, as is the impressionistic touch in the Opening from Glassworks. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

another stimulating and imaginatively curated programme of short pieces and improvisations, going back and forth between various acoustic and electronic keyboards. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2023 More…

…Phrygian Gates is a 25-minute movement of almost romantic scope and ambition, with genuinely expressive harmonies. Ralph Van Raat gives full weight to all that emotional potential, and he... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…