David Bedford - Impulse

‘ Bedford ’s Alleluia Timpanis Fragments…mixes celebration, exuberance and dread in a stunning showpiece’. (Classic CD).

‘David Bedford’s Symphony for 12 Musicians is a splendid work…At this first hearing I found it a major masterpiece of our times’. (Charles Acton, Irish Times).

‘In the Recorder Concerto Bedford ’s brilliant writing pushes the soloist beyond virtuosity into the realms of improbability’. (Classic CD).

’12 Hours of Sunset’ suspends time: glowing choral passages waft in and out of shimmering strings and slowly unfurling orchestral chords.’ (Hampstead and Highgate Express).

"brilliant and dynamic scoring"