Two-four Proverbs, Book Of Proverbs: Torke / Argo Band De Waart / Netherlands Radio Po & Cho

This release features Four Proverbs for soprano and ensemble, and Book of Proverbs, for chorus, orchestra, and two soloists. You would have to go a long way to find music as communicative and as uplifting as Michael Torke's. What's more, his compositions are uniquely individual and full of integrity. For all Torke's ingenious construction techniques, this is music straight from the heart; it's also full of optimism. Gramophone. Each piece is short and telling, and the sounds are engagingly attractive. BBC Music Magazine [Four Proverbs] In it's airy, breezy orchestral color, it's irresistible rhythms and it's hypnotic melodies, it couldn't be anyone other than Torke. He really is a one-off. And there is some stunningly beautiful music in the piece too, especially it's spellbinding fifth movement, with luminous writing for solo soprano, it's moving, Bach-like seventh movement, and it's cumulative, radiant finale. The Herald (Scotland) [Book of Proverbs].