“…for more than 2 minutes we're treated to glistening, cascading voices: for each one that disappears, another arrives in its place.”
Read More“…this ever-adventurous outfit's primary goal—“to make music that sparks joy and wonder”—remains very much in place on its fifth album.”
Read More“In featuring two elements only, the work engages for its intimate quality and an arrangement that enables the expressiveness of Kelly's vocal delivery and Leisner's poised guitar articulations to be heard with maximum clarity.”
Read More“Hymns for Private Use continues to showcase Akropolis' elegant playing while reflecting on music's role in the community.”
Read More”Elly’s vocals are ethereally beautiful and clean, and the way she sings reminds me of the way a siren would, enchanting and alluring. It is exceptionally soporific, dreamy, and certainly hypnotizing.”
Read More“Elly always brings something fresh with her music and Disappear is no exception.”
Read More“The sheer musical imagination of the cycle always illuminates and illustrates the gentle, lyrical poetry. Throughout there is an appealing rhetorical fluency that piques the curiosity.”
Read More“a brilliant virtuoso display with heart”
Read More“Its two works—the multi-part water hollows stone in particular—are substantial pieces and ultimately won't be forgotten when the book on Weiser's career is someday written.”
Read More“Mulligan is in superb voice throughout. Sharing warmth and sympathy, fortitude and humility, strength and tenderness via naturally accented, clearly enunciated English and admirable legato, he gives us the full measure of these songs.”
Read More“…the three movements are Waves, a quietly roiling texture from which “phrase, melody and harmony” eventually emerge…”
Read More“The Akropolis Reed Quintet are at it again. What a terrific ensemble, and what a distinctive blend.”
Read More“Mulligan’s beefy, immaculately focused baritone is ideal, capturing the music’s inherent breeziness and relishing thenuances of the sophisticated poetry.”
Read More“…a fulsome debut from American cellist Bryant.”
Read MoreHymns for Private Use receives a four star review in BBC Music Magazine.
Read More“…the sound mass expands noticeably when their strings blend into a shimmering, glorious mass out of which individual voices emerge.”
Read More“To me Leisner’s transcriptions sound perfectly idiomatic and might very well have been approved by Schubert himself…”
Read More“Bryant’s playing suggests a flood of pent-up conversation, the different voices winding down as the work proceeds.”
Read MoreWhat Now review on Belgium music website Rootstime.
Read More“It’s almost chamber music stirred gently with a bluegrass spoon. These fellows have a good grip on entertainment with classical instruments. Highly recommended.”
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