Press for Nicholas Gotch
Dance, Monster, To My Soft Song!
“Dance, Monster, to My Soft Song!’ inspired by the work of Paul Klee is concise and shows the composer’s acute sense of colour.”
— Ruch Muzyczny, Warsaw
“This concise composition, interlacing pulsing rhythmic music with more static harmonies displays the composer’s musical imagination in a strong light.”
— Dziennik Polski, Krakow
“A kinetic and colourful sextet.”
— Musical Times
Notes Towards…
“The aims implied in the title of his Notes Towards... being towards a definition of continuously fast, highly active music, was ably and very precisely executed.”
— Daily Telegraph
“The meticulousness and clarity that distinguished Gotch’s six minute Notes Towards... whose precisely imagined buzzing and fluttering converged through slow chords to a final single unison note.”
— The Times
Flight
“It proved a delicately scored twelve-minute study in long wind lines and scherzando patternings against thrumming cross-pulsations from tuned percussion and strings and complimented by a slow sequence of dark uncoilings.”
— The Independent
“Altogether it showed a good ear for colour, texture and timing.”
— The Guardian
“Gotch succeeds in his aim of creating fast music, not only by keeping a fast pulsation going throughout much of the piece but also by writing melodic lines that move … it was deftly carried out.”