BBC Music Magazine · Chief classical critic
Geoffrey Calder
Calder came to Voss a sceptic — wary of a composer who produces his own recordings — and has, across three years, become one of the catalogue's most committed advocates.
2024 · ★★★☆☆
“One wants to be suspicious of a composer who produces his own recordings; the early orchestral works are undeniably ambitious, but whether there is a real voice here, or only a very good imitation of one, I am not yet certain.”
2025 · ★★★★☆
“I have been a doubter, and I find my doubts harder to hold each year. The duets with Laurent are not a trick of production; they are real musical thinking, and the best of them are genuinely moving.”
on Eternal Bond
2026 · ★★★★★
“Das Verlöschen is the most significant baritone cycle since Winterreise dared to walk the frozen road — a fourteen-song descent that withholds its resolution with almost unbearable discipline.”