Press
"Last Monday, there was an unexpected Easter present in St. Jakobus in Miltenberg: the impressive premiere of the one-act church opera The Angel of the East. This is certainly a successful new work, one representing a magnificent attempt to tread new paths in church music. The partly atonal musical concept is convincing in terms of form, melody and concomitant transparency. The soprano solos breath musicality, the harp accompaniment provides a serene spirituality." Main Echo
“In Graham
Lack’s The Pencil of Nature, premiered [as part of the musica viva series] the composer satisfies the principle of maximum transparency to the full, his string trio cast in a musical language of mysterious fluttering sounds.” Süddeutsche Zeitung
"Lux divisa", for four mixed-Voice choirs and organ remains "contemporary in feeling yet evinces a wonderful sense of harmonic structure". Frankfurter Neue Presse
"An artful composition that follows entirely in the King's Singers tradition."
Westdeutscher Allgemeine Zeitung
"Graham
Lack's music is proving to be a really interesting discovery."
Applaus Magazin
"Virtuoso
choral choreography." Süddeutsche Zeitung
"Evincing
a personal musical language [his works] draw freely on an earlier
Renaissance style." Münchner Merkur
“Lack’s
second lullaby ‘At the Manger: Mary Sings’ and the setting
of another poem given as
an encore were especially convincing in their clearly defined structures
and mildly dissonant harmonic style.” Süddeutsche
Zeitung
“Graham
Lack’s compositions represent a real highpoint [to the programme].”
Süddeutsche Zeitung
“The final
three works in the programme, all by Graham Lack, lent the evening
a more strongly European feeling. The two lullabies managed to raise
goose-bumps immediately, with their admixture of earlier styles
which are then rendered in contemporary terms. Passages admitting
a strict level of dissonance lead directly into others which might
have been tailor-made for an ensemble like the King’s Singers.”
Gmünder Tagespost
“Cantores
Illuminati brought [a] sense of wonder and enjoyment to two delightful
Lullabies by Graham Lack, of which Jesu Sweete Sonne Dear was evidence
of a composer who delights in sound... here is a composer with a
sure understanding of timbres and the experience to know how to
say what he wants to say in musical terms.” Musical
Opinion
"The Allegri played a short Quartettsatz by the very accomplished Munich-based composer Graham Lack...this pregnant little piece was full of fitful melody; one hopes it will be the prelude to more works in the quartet format." Oxford Times
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