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Reviews
Opus HD (France)
“The young horn player Ben Jacks succeeds in inhabiting each score with passion, intelligence and poetry. His technique works wonders in the most virtuoso passages, and one is amazed at the colours his instrument reveals. This is a great moment for concerto music.”
Fanfare (US)
“... Jack’s playing stands on its own: lithe, technically impeccable, and displaying the varied colouring you’d more than likely expect from a vocalist ... In every respect, this is a fine release.”
The Horn Call (US)
“... beauty, ease and flawless technique”
All Music Guide (US)
“Ben Jacks, one of the finest Australian horn players of his generation and first chair in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, plays with seamless tone … He plays with absolute security, robust tone, and expressive warmth.”
ArtsHub UK
.... The richness of musical ideas and form of this dramatic work provided an intensely dramatic journey, with Williams’ breathtaking musicianship and artistry keeping the audience on the edge of their seat, dragging them kicking and screaming through deeply troubling existential struggles that shaped the twentieth century...
ArtsHub UK
‘…At times insectile and at others dog-like in its bark, this lipsmacking, thigh-slapping, tongue-poking creature was conjured with all the hiss-pop-boing of a vivid and vibrant cartoonish world. For all its raspberries and its frantic, fluttering fingers, Tristram Williams’ trumpet became a megaphone, a kazoo, a fabulous distortion device for the curiously intelligible but wordless voice of a muttering, chattering, larger-than-life characterisation...’
“The young horn player Ben Jacks succeeds in inhabiting each score with passion, intelligence and poetry. His technique works wonders in the most virtuoso passages, and one is amazed at the colours his instrument reveals. This is a great moment for concerto music.”
Fanfare (US)
“... Jack’s playing stands on its own: lithe, technically impeccable, and displaying the varied colouring you’d more than likely expect from a vocalist ... In every respect, this is a fine release.”
The Horn Call (US)
“... beauty, ease and flawless technique”
All Music Guide (US)
“Ben Jacks, one of the finest Australian horn players of his generation and first chair in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, plays with seamless tone … He plays with absolute security, robust tone, and expressive warmth.”
ArtsHub UK
.... The richness of musical ideas and form of this dramatic work provided an intensely dramatic journey, with Williams’ breathtaking musicianship and artistry keeping the audience on the edge of their seat, dragging them kicking and screaming through deeply troubling existential struggles that shaped the twentieth century...
ArtsHub UK
‘…At times insectile and at others dog-like in its bark, this lipsmacking, thigh-slapping, tongue-poking creature was conjured with all the hiss-pop-boing of a vivid and vibrant cartoonish world. For all its raspberries and its frantic, fluttering fingers, Tristram Williams’ trumpet became a megaphone, a kazoo, a fabulous distortion device for the curiously intelligible but wordless voice of a muttering, chattering, larger-than-life characterisation...’