What They Say
| of the recording by Kevin Bowyer on Nimbus
(NI 5664) of Bowers-Broadbent's DUETS AND
CANONS It is the work of a performing organist, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, a fact which tells immediately. Though the style of the music is 'cool contemporary', the whole experience is warmed through by the beauty and sensuousness of the Marcussen's flute and reed stops. The organ is allowed to speak on its own terms, and speak it does, with considerable eloquence. The musical language is familiar (few discords here), though filtered through Bowers-Broadbent's highly original mind, so that the false starts and broken off phrases become very powerful musical statements indeed. (William Whitehead in The BBC Music Magazine March 2001) These are works to be enjoyed at first hearing and then returned to frequently for the pleasures of exploring them further. (Brian Hick in The Organ Magazine May 2001) |
| at a performance of Pärt's PASSIO
with The Hilliard Ensemble in St John's Smith
Square on 15th April 2001: Behind us, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent's organ painted a throbbing halo of sound (Nick Kimberley in The Independent On Sunday) |