Performance ***** Recording ****
“The American composer Augusta Read Thomas has an intense ‘voice’, with an exceptional ear for timbral detail, clarity and the control of ebb and flow… It’s [The Auditions] tremendously compelling, full of rhythmic sparkle, subtle shades of mood and a brilliant sense of interplay between the intriguing selection of instruments … Perhaps the vocal works are ultimately the most touching; a wordless Pleas for Peace, sung with pure expressiveness by Jessica Aszodi which allows stillness and fervour to shine through …”