Presto Editor's Choice - March 2018

Olivia Robinson (soprano), Jennifer Adams-Barbaro (soprano) & Cherith Millburn-Fryer (alto)
ensemble recherche, BBC Symphony Orchestra, EXAUDI, Martyn Brabbins, James Weeks

Ferneyhough: Liber Scintillarum
Ferneyhough: Plötzlichkeit
Ferneyhough: Missa Brevis
Ferneyhough: La Terre est un Homme

"An uncanny allure permeates all four works here: the shifting, surrealist soundscape of La Terre est un Homme is as mesmerising as it is unsettling, whilst the dozen singers of EXAUDI acquit themselves magnificently in the forbidding but compelling Missa brevis from 1969, taking the assault-course of extended vocal techniques in their stride to create a tapestry of stark, strange beauty."