reviews
Musical Opinion
"There was a poised, formal beauty in the score's repeated phrases and fragile textures. The final section's inventive use of whistling and humming [...] brought the piece to an ethereal and haunting conclusion."
Sunflowers in Autumn
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The Berkeley Ensemble
St David's Hall, Cardiff
09 April 2019
The Guardian
"... it was the players’ quiet whistling that added an intriguing extra texture before fading to an end."
Sunflowers in Autumn
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The Berkeley Ensemble
St David's Hall, Cardiff
09 April 2019
Cambrian News
"a meditation on the poignancy of Beethoven’s impending loss of hearing. Climbing higher and higher on the top E string, the violin at the work’s conclusion evoked the strange sounds the composer might have been hearing internally."
Until the thread breaks
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Mary Hofman & Richard Ormrod
Coleg Meirion Dwyfor, Dollgellau
14 February 2019
The Guardian
"... transported the ear to
a world of its own"
mind the gap
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UPROAR
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
26 Oct 2018
"a transgressive few minutes, with pristine dissonance and an eerie ambiance."
Is there no seeker of dreams that were?
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BBC NOW
Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
09 April 2018
Wales Arts Review
"As an account of how dream and memory are embodied in recollection as ineffable states that find focus in the orchestra’s seemingly bottomless trove of sounds, it’s a jewel."
Is there no seeker of dreams that were?
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BBC NOW
Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
30 March 2018
Weeping Tudor Productions
The Guardian
"... the inherent austerity of this vein carried more force than the moments of ostensibly consoling tonality"
Is there no seeker of dreams that were?
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BBC NOW
Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
29 March 2018
Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
The music of Sarah Lianne Lewis is very quiet and delicate [...] The percussion is lightly used, and shimmers around the vocal line."
I dared say it to the sky
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Sarah Maria Sun & Johannes Fischer
Halle 02, Heidelberg
April 2016
Wales Arts Review
"a piece full of imaginative sonorities involving bowed percussion, agitated woodwind, fast, glissandi strings and more."
Is there no seeker of dreams that were?
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BBC NOW
Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
08 March 2016
4 Bars Rest
"[the work] utilised the Cathedral acoustic to fine effect with its broken motifs and murmured ciphers – as if the walls echoed to the sound of long forgotten paeans."
Those Echoes Around
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Wormshead Top Brass
Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral
11 June 2011