PRESS

“…Violin Concerto is of course a time-honoured title. Short this example may be, but there is an epic feel to born-1987 Robert Peate’s writing, which is incident-packed, capricious and emotional, with essentials, including a cadenza, compacted, the music becoming serene and finally vanishing. Vesselin Gellev was the splendid soloist…”

Colin Anderson, Classical Source (Review of Violin Concerto)

‘Robert Peate’s haunting three-movement Knucklas Arches was […] veiled, expansive and imposing […] introspective and songlike. Peate’s delicate and painterly paragraphs were sensitively realised in this cogent and satisfying first performance.’

Paul Conway, Musical Opinion

‘Robert Peate’s ear-tingling Images, work […] from a RAM student who’s already writing genuine music.’

Geoff Brown, The Times

‘Robert Peate impressed with his technical command and some weird but effective textures, as well as some genuinely lyrical music’

Christopher Gunning, Seen and Heard International (Review of Images – part 1)

‘Robert Peate’s Pearl was an elegiac piece about loss and mourning which embraces reflection and anger. It was moving and transient.’

Edward Clark, Feature Review: 2013 Presteigne Festival of Music and Arts

“Full of telling echoes and resonances […] The contrast between the still, numbed opening paragraphs and the ensuing ornate passages is highly effective and the work’s underlying theme, which is loss and grief, seeps through gaps and reverberations in the material.”

Paul Conway, Musical Opinion (Review of Pearl (II))