“The Four Elements” Gramophone UK Review
Posted on August 2, 2025
“Coming up with relevant and coherent programming is a challenge every artist faces, whether in performance or before the microphones. For their 21st recording, ‘The Four Elements’, the string quartet Brooklyn Rider have organised repertoire suggested by various aspects of climate change categorised under ‘Earth’, ‘Air’, ‘Fire’ and ‘Water’.
The new pieces provide clear evidence that composers of enormous craft and social awareness continue to thrive (…) Andreia Pinto Correia’s Aere senza stelle probes the effects of air in episodes of dark, furious and desolate intensity. The contrasts between stillness and fleet, airborne fragments are keenly achieved.”
– Gramophone UK
Commissioned by the 2022 Vail Dance Festival, Damien Woetzel – Artistic Director – Aere senza stelle is dedicated in admiration to António Guterres, for his life dedication to climate change issues, and to Catarina Vaz Pinto. A special thank you to Brooklyn Rider.