Reviews

‘Virtuosic playing, especially the clear and precise violin of Morgan, and Dullea’s work on the piano…’ 

San Francisco Classical Voice


‘A remarkably evocative showcase for one of the most adventurous violinists around, Darragh Morgan…’

BBC Radio 3


‘Fantastic precision, beautifully tender rapt concentration’

BBC Radio 3 Record Review


‘A performer who is a creative catalyst for so many new pieces and so many composers…’

Tom Service BBC Radio 3


‘The former Concert Master is the perfect master of his art…’

Der Standard Wien


‘Unerring composure, and their tonal variation evoked hints of a Messiaen-like quiet ecstasy…’

The Strad


‘ “Definitive” isn’t a word to be brandished lightly but the sheer sonic loveliness of Tilbury’s softer-than-soft softs and Morgan’s salamander zigzag slide around Feldman’s self-renewing lines is, you guessed it, matchless.’

Gramophone Magazine


‘Gorgeous lyrical playing from violinist Darragh Morgan…’

The Independent


‘…and yet, as time in the Purcell Room was suspended, Morgan seemed to reveal a trajectory, too, by gently unfolding the piece’s written-in tempo shifts… this was no quirky curiosity, but a serious reconsideration of a challenging aesthetic preoccupation.’

The Strad


'Performances are as perceptive as one would expect from musicians committed to commissioning and performing new music .... a disc deserving wide exposure'

The Gramophone  


‘This was a remarkable performance, one that seemed shrouded in the aura of John Tilbury’s experience in this music. Tilbury is rightly seen as a foremost interpreter of Feldman. He was joined by Belfast‐born violinist Darragh Morgan, who seemed to think little of being in a very exposed spotlight for just under 90 minutes.’

Seen and Heard International


''the intuitive partnership of Morgan and Dullea resulted in an utterly gripping sound-world of breath-taking delicacy and serenity'

The Irish Times


'Tilbury makes a fine partner, his playing as impeccably judged and graded as Morgan's...As the two performers gradually edge closer to each other with a shared sense of purpose during the work's closing gestures, there's something deeply moving about their precision, their sonic inventiveness, and their respect for each other' 

The Strad 


‘Darragh Morgan, is hugely impressive, delivering a delicate performance alive to the subtleties and nuances of the music. He plays with seemingly effortless control yet brings an impressive spontaneity to his reading, and it's astonishing how he maintains such a refined sound and crisp articulation over 90 minutes of highly exposed material.

The Strad


 'But in these times, there’s time, and it passes swiftly as this hushed, slow music — an assembly of repeated, subtly modulated, spare fragments — weaves a compelling spell, thanks to the rapt concentration of the violinist Darragh Morgan, who plays without vibrato but with pinpoint tuning, and the pianist John Tilbury.' 

Sunday Times 


'The two soloists are agile, incisive and impassioned'

BBC Music Magazine


'Morgan and Dullea are musicians who plainly cherish the diverse gifts placed in their hands; their performances are consistently alert and alive across the breadth of styles and, indeed time scales'

Paul Griffiths, Words on Music


'Darragh Morgan and John Tilbury are ideal interpreters: they are both veterans of contemporary classical chamber music, and in particular of Feldman.... It is Morgan and Tilbury’s astonishing feat that not once do they lose concentration, and not once does the music sound anything other than organic and spontaneous. Here is where their years with the work has reaped dividends, and this listener was rapt.'

Journal of Music


'A gorgeous new recording of one of Feldman’s most elusive scores, with one of the composer’s greatest interpreters at the piano and an ideally poised violinist partner.' 

National Sawdust Log 


“For Violin and Electronics is exactly the kind of startling, thought-provoking album that can draw in listeners unfamiliar with classical music, old or new, but open to adventurous sounds. While each piece is unique, both in terms of tonalities and mood, the album as a whole is an unearthly experience”

Band Camp Editorial


'both musically and technically, Morgan and Dullea play with extraordinary aplomb. flair and assurance; they also demonstrate styles of rhythmic and timbral combination that are an object-lesson in chamber musicianship'

International Record Review


‘Irish violinist Darragh Morgan in the early 1960s Violin Phase gave fresh, vital life to this energised example of pure minimalism.’

The Scotsman


"Composer and soloist seamlessly integrate the violin into an industrial soundscape – a brilliant resolution of electro-acoustic composition's inherent conflicts...an excellent album" 

Andrew Hamilton, Sounds like Now