Congratulations to Margaret Brouwer!

Rave reviews are out on Margaret’s new album: Rhapsodies with ORF Vienna

Radio Symphony Orchestra with Marin Alsop.

"a composer unafraid to channel honest (and jarring) emotion through thoughtfully chosen instruments and textures...Beautiful programmatic language...Even within a highly atmospheric orchestral work, the composer can still derive intrigue through a combination of conventional and adventurous writing...This is a wonderful collection of works from Brouwer...it is her bold and uncompromising voice that proves most exciting. Alsop and the ORF ensemble do these works absolute justice in these readings. Highly recommended."
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"...the orchestral sound world is extremely evocative, redolent of natural landscapes, and certainly with a basis in an emotional response to the world...The orchestral richness is assured and compelling...it has an intense creativity...It is good to hear contemporary music that while pushing against the boundaries of style, does not lose the fundamental creative spark rooted in an intense sensitivity to human experience of the world and society around us."
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"a very beautiful, colorful work...the music is downright exuberant and correspondingly virtuosic...dramatically intense and sonorous...Marin Alsop and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra deliver outstanding interpretations of these compositions, all of which are well worth hearing."
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"she's never looking at something from just one angle or vantage point musically or emotionally."
WETA Classical Breakdown recommends Rhapsodies as one of the top 4 new albums to listen to this summer! Listen to the episode here (begin at 17:35 to hear the review of Rhapsodies)

“…she is known for her commitment to lyricism and vivid orchestral imagery. This programme, in the capable hands of Marin Alsop, makes strong cases for the pieces on offer, particularly the First Symphony which sports a Dutch hymn-like melody and confident, colourful orchestral writing.” 
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