Signum Classics is proud to release an album of string works by the award-winning composer, Brian Elias. Spanning almost half a century, this survey of Brian Elias’s chamber music for strings arose from a retrospective staged in 2020 by the Music@Malling festival in Kent. His first album on Sig- num, it is released alongside ‘Music for Wind’ and will be launched at Music@ Malling in September 2024. The album artwork is by celebrated artist Anish Kapoor.
All Music Classical Highlights October 2024
EDITORS CHOICE “This is the finest album of contemporary chamber music I have encountered this year…Brian Elias’ String Quartet (2012) is a gem that should be in the repertoire of every British Quartet…A tour de force of compositional ingenuity…The Castalian Quartet play it for all its worth in a performance that is little short of a revelation…Clein’s performances are the album’s high points (the magic is particularly strong in Of Elutropia)” – Gramophone
“Amply gifted as an orchestral composer…purified intensity, immediacy and unrestrained lyricism” – Paul Griffiths, The Sunday Times
“It’s hard to imagine more committed or more persuasive accounts of the string music of Brian Elias than the ones gathered together here. The Indian-born British composer is a senior figure in UK music, with an appropriately broad and considered output to match…It’s a deeply rewarding disc whose exquisitely crafted music is matched by performances of authority” – The Strad