Diego Castro Magas: Shrouded Mirrors

Diego Castro Magas: Shrouded MirrorsRelease Date: 13 November 2015 In Shrouded Mirrors, Chilean virtuoso Diego Castro Maga champions recent British guitar music. The collection explores extremely demanding works with radical aesthetics and highly suggestive content. In doing so, Maga explores the evocative quality of the instrument through extremes of both intimacy and violence. As a result of close collaboration with the composers involved, the recording includes innovative and

Harvey sets the piano soloist the challenge of combining piano playing and triggering a sampler/synthesizer so that the live electronics can be realised in real-time performance

"A remarkable disc that demands - and rewards -  active listening

with music from JS Bach

Instruments interrupt and sound like they are trying to trip one another up

‘The performances are all topnotch … Koleva and MacGregor are both outstanding in precision and vitality

Tadaaki Otaka conductor

robust and sleek

Recording Producers: SIMON HALL & ED BENNETT

"Plenty to absorb in this daringly exploratory album

Matthews's The Great Journey

Imogen Holst is put centre stage in this recording on NMC' Planet Hugill

London between 21 August and 17 September 2008 – except for Alexander Goehr