Concertos, Turnage (composer)

Vadim Repin and Daniel Hope are, not surprisingly, ideally fluent, and the excellent Turkish players recreate Turnage’s enigmatic soundworld with aplomb. This is an uncompromising score, but... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue and Riffs at last seems to have stood the test of time… Otherwise the disc is strictly for aficionados of performance rather than composition. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2008 More…

Rounding off the album, brevity is certainly the soul of wit in Jake Heggie’s sleek, neoclassical tongue-in-cheek Overture – its quirky postmodern, pastiche-like evocation of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2023 More…

The three most substantial works on this CD are concertos in all but name, each a valuable addition to the repertoire...[On opened ground] finds Power making wonderful sense of Turnage’s alternately... — Financial Times, 15th December 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Each of these pieces for trombone and orchestra subtly subverts the concept of the concerto in its composer's idiosyncratic way. Lindberg performs them with astonishing technical assurance,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

…there's a deal of optimism to balance the angst in Eötvös's Jet Stream… The music is dense but intelligible, sonorous yet glitteringly incandescent… Hardenberger… is a breathtaking concerto... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…