“It must be said at the outset: this music is beautiful. … timbrally rich, melodically centred, semi-opaque … With his first portrait CD, this fabulous work can reach a much wider listenership.”
“If I had to categorize Croft’s compositions, I might call them Spectral, but that would also be a kind of detraction from the music’s originality and impact. Disconcerting, darkly beautiful and sometimes even implying modality, Croft’s tone poems – because that’s really what they are – prove absorbing, challenging and ultimately rewarding.”
Marc Medwin, Fanfare
LOST SONGS
“The six settings of Ancient Greek poets evoke a remote yet involving sound-world, the soprano becoming a focal-point of eloquence in this imaginative musical experience.”
(from booklet note by Richard Whitehouse)
