DylanPerez

Press

• BARBER The Complete Songs

  CD

  May 2022

  • ★★★★★ Dylan Perez’s pianism is consistently insightful without obtruding – a tall order for any accompanist – and his curating of the entire project is masterly...These two discs undoubtedly set a new benchmark in Barber’s vocal music, and every art song lover should have them.

    • BBC Music Magazine
    • 01 August 2022

  • Curated by Dylan Perez, whose playing throughout is sublime and profoundly intuitive, cycles such as Two Songs (with Barron), Hermit Songs (Bevan) and Despite and Still (Sedgewick) trace Barber’s remarkable assurance and growth as a composer for voice, with all of the soloists relishing the contrasts in his writing between sparkling light and levity and crepuscular shade. ★★★★★

    • The Sunday Times
    • 07 August 2022

  • One of the recording’s pleasures is the way the songs come to life through 10 different characters, but with Perez as a constant, eloquent presence (he plays on all the songs save Dover Beach). As a characterful overview of Barber’s songwriting – and equally as a snapshot of emerging vocal talent – this is a very rewarding collection

    • The Guardian
    • 05 May 2022

• BRAHMS Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 52 & 65

  CD

  Sep 2023

  • This delectable recording makes a splendid case, if it were needed, for their worth. These four singers complement one another and blend effortlessly, seeming to share some crucial qualities: enjoyable tone powered by intelligent attention to the text, and wide-ranging emotional capacity encompassing high spirits and heartache alike.

    • BBC Musiz Magazine
    • 01 November 2023