Gramophone Magazine
Awards Issue 2024
Editor's Choice

Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein (cello), Danny Driver (piano), Thomas Kemp

Elias, B: String Quartet
Elias, B: L'Innominata (for cello and piano)
Elias, B: Of Elutropia (for solo cello)
Elias, B: Duo (for violin and piano)
Elias, B: Three Scherzi (for violin and piano)
Elias, B: But when I sleep (for solo viola)

Signum Classics is proud to release an album of string works by the award-winning composer, Brian Elias. Spanning almost half a century, this survey of Brian Elias’s chamber music for strings arose from a retrospective staged in 2020 by the Music@Malling festival in Kent. His first album on Sig- num, it is released alongside ‘Music for Wind’ and will be launched at Music@ Malling in September 2024. The album artwork is by celebrated artist Anish Kapoor.

"I am going to go out on a limb here and say that this is the finest album of contemporary chamber music I have encountered this year." - Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024