Corigliano: Conjurer & Vocalise

“I simply can’t remember when I’ve heard percussion arrays captured with such realism...Climaxes are thrilling and fatigue-free, and the soundstage is wide and wondrous. Goodness, what mellifluous and haunting sounds composer and soloist conjure up...Fresh, vital, vigorous; contemporary music of quality, winningly played.” --MusicWeb International, 12th February 2014

"The performances are first-rate. Glennie is her expected phenomenal self, partnered with pinpoint accuracy by the Albany strings under David Alan Miller, a conductor very much at home in contemporary American repertoire. Plitmann negotiates the difficult arioso line of the Vocalise with deceptive ease." --Fanfare, May 2014

"The range of sonorities [in Conjurer] is vast and the drama that Corigliano achieves both in the cadenzas and the movements themselves keeps the ear entranced. Glennie draws magical sounds from the artillery at her hands and feet, and the Albany Symphony are superb collaborators.

The trajectory of Vocalise…from acoustic to electronic worlds is but one aspect of its glowing personality. Corigliano keeps the soloist—here the radiant and fearless soprano Hila Plitmann—soaring on phrases of mesmerising shape and character. The voice rides above and within an orchestral soundscape of shimmering hues until electronics (by Mark Baechle) take the soloist into other-worldly terrain suffused with echoes." --Gramophone, January 2014