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Reviews

“It was above all a piece for bass clarinet by Ross Lorraine which aroused interest. Here you could hear the quality which distinguishes the best of contemporary British music: it doesn’t mess about…it’s upfront music – unspoilt and direct”  - Süddeutsche Zeitung
 
“I most enjoyed Ross Lorraine’s Melos, with it’s long-breathed melody gradually coalescing from fragments"  - The Times
 
"They don't write them like that any more - except, they do!"    - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music, on I Need You Here (Melissa James/Ross Lorraine)

"This magnificent debut album ... announces not just the arrival of a remarkable new voice, but a writing partnership that has really taken flight."    Jazzwise (4 stars) on the album Day Dawns, co-written with Melissa James

“Lorraine is his own composer, producing work which, while receptive to external influence, expresses a notable consistency and independence of thought… Lorraine is a composer with something to say, and I (for one) am curious to hear how he will choose to say it next”    - BMIC Counterpoints

"I discovered Ross Lorraine while arranging Harrison Birtwistle’s Love Cries in 1998-99.  He was working on the score, and Birtwistle said ‘He’s very interesting, I think you should give him a commission’ – so I did”   - Michael Berkeley, 2001 Cheltenham Festival programme

“Ross Lorraine’s New Work was even more gripping in it’s Feldman-like aura of quietly focused intensity”  - musicweb


Links - click for:

Ross Lorraine's Bandcamp page
Ross Lorraine's Soundcloud page
Ross Lorraine's page on ccMixter (under the name of oldDog)
David Bruce interviews Ross Lorraine on Composition Today

a blog about Ross Lorraine's remixes, collaborations, theatre music... (pre-2011)
the website for Creative Commons Licensing
New Work  for bass clarinet, recording on Lorelt
Melissa James's website
​Sarah Chaplin Septet's album Firehorse, on which Ross plays keys