“Pentatone’s laudable commitment to rescuing contemporary works from oblivion materializes once again in this recording… It continues the project of recovering the compositions of this peerless twentieth-century creator …recognized as the composer of a body of piano and vocal music of enormous sensitivity and great spiritual dimension. Precisely this comes through in listening to Esther, which the conductor Kirill Karabits has taken it upon himself to study in detail in order to offer a highly nuanced reading of great theatrical power…” Pedro Coco July 2026