Andrew Webb-Mitchell

The English Composer

• "In Songs of Awe and Wonder, Andrew Webb-Mitchell has created a stunning set of symphonic songs on a grand scale. The music is full of passion and heroism, with glorious harmony and beautiful textures."

• "The orchestration is beautifully detailed and the vocal writing creates a soaring line that carries the listener right through the vast canvas of the cycle."

• “Songs of Awe and Wonder is a beautiful, joyous and uplifting new work by a very accomplished composer."

• "Soaring vocal lines, sparkling orchestration and direct, vivid storytelling. A great new work.”

• "Andrew Webb Mitchell has produced a remarkable and important work in Songs of Awe and Wonder."

• "Dedicated to Gustav Mahler, this is passionate music on a grand scale – a modern day Song of the Earth."

• "There is dream, daring and duende in the poetry of Songs of Awe and Wonder."

• "The core of these lyrics is their sheer, stark elegiac power reminding me of how I felt the first time I heard Rilke's Duino Elegies."