Cage - First Construction in Metal (1939) for seven percussionists

Massively recorded, Cage’s works present modernism as a kind of amusing fetish, not exactly music, but something falling into that category by default. His dramatisation of silence brought celebrity,... — Sunday Times, 24th August 2014 More…

Signe Asmussen is the dramatic soprano in Ginastera’s Cantata para América mágica — treatments, often tumultuous, of pre-Columbian texts. By contrast, Cage’s First Construction (in Metal) is... — Sunday Times, 14th February 2021 More…

Mode records with pristine depth as a matter of pride, a strategy that bypasses the customary heart-searching about recorded sound and turns attention back on to the sonic object itself. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2013 More…