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Sissie Cohen

ACCLAIM

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Gil Rose has decades of experience articulating scores for one-offs or short runs, and that translates into confident performances, like this one, of challenging works. Rose conducts firmly and never takes a measure off, and singers and instrumentalists benefit.

Classical Voice North America
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An organization that has championed American music of the 20th and 21st century with passion and panache.

Gramophone Magazine
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A leader in contemporary opera and classical music in America.

Opera News
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A unique, scrappy and invaluable ensemble…long may this group continue.

The New York Times
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The 100th to emerge on BMOP/sound, the ensemble’s record label…an astonish achievement, as much for the fundraising and other administrative work that has been involved in bringing each of the recordings to life as for the artistic courage and technical accomplishment that mark the music-making on them all.

The New York Times
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Grateful for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s usual confident performances.

The New York Times
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Once more for everyone in the back, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project led by Gil Rose, is fantastic.

The Whole Note
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Institutions everywhere are now struggling to broadcast their own wokeness, but BMOP has been doing this work all along.

Composer Lisa Bielawa
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Without doubt BMOP has become an absolutely essential force in the field, a purveyor of not just new things to hear — but new ways of hearing, of understanding, and of celebrating the vibrant yet oftentimes near-invisible tradition of American symphonic music of the last century.

The Boston Globe
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Much of the most interesting work is being done by groups led by the conductor Gil Rose, whose Boston Modern Orchestra Project continues to shine in overlooked music from the last century.

Gramophone Magazine
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The Boston Modern Orchestra Project continues to put every other symphony orchestra in the country to shame, at least in terms of its fresh, varied recordings.

WQXR Radio
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BMOP/sound is an example of everything done right…distinctively packaged and smartly annotated…eminently desirable discs

The New York Times
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BMOP and Gil Rose invariably well prepare and execute beautiful concerts featuring living and breathing composers. Bravo!

Boston Musical Intelligencer
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Progressive, vibrant and fresh concerts…Boston Modern Orchestra Project has flourished.

Boston Musical Intelligencer
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BMOP has become a major force in commissioning, presenting and recording modern and orchestral music.

Boston Musical Intelligencer
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The orchestral playing was top-notch…bringing vivid, intense orchestrations to life.

Schmopera
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Gil Rose and BMOP perform with incredible precision and unbridled intensity in equal measure.

I Care If You Listen
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The catalog is an extraordinary achievement, a great monument of American music, consistently issued in fine, committed performances, fine recordings, and handsomely produced packages

The Absolute Sound
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All of the repertoire is played with intense drama and suavity by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project led by Gil Rose, a champion of living composers with a keen ear for texture, balance and dramatic contrast.

Gramophone Magazine

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