Press

“Talents of today are carving their names on the eternal tree of the arts. That’s what the 83 year old Terry Riley did more than fifty years ago. Now he’s admiringly watching Nora Fischer.”

“When this duo plays, two worlds come together. The classically-trained singer Fischer and pop musician Dorrestein play 17th century compositions through the lens of 21^st century musicians. How would Vivaldi have sounded if he’d have been a singer-songwriter? The performances are compelling and accessible. There is no denying Nora’s pristine singing.”

“HUSH, an album that is pushing boundaries in the classical music world, is sparking new ideas surrounding innovation and creativity in early music (…) lulls the listener into bliss.”

“Nora’s diction was like a razor sharp blade that cut through her accompaniment. She drove home the need to dig deeper and genuinely let herself go in the moment, which created an overall vocally-maddening-bliss. It was jaw-dropping, raw, and phenomenal to watch and hear everything unfold (…) Her voice was a beacon of light that transformed the music around her (…) masterfully told her stories with a crisp and coherent line of text, her vocal tone illuminated each phrase and gave life to her character (…) selectively used vibrato in her singing and mixed it with an ethereal and soothing tone (…) Displaying a well-trained singer’s agility, she played into the dynamics of each phrase, which emphasized her honesty as a story-teller in a modern song-cycle (…) perfectly crafted screams (…) Everyone was awe-inspired at this point in the song cycle and it was visible how they eagerly wanted more.”

“Fischer is force of nature. At her quietest, she brought a plaintive, sometimes prayerful quality to the narrative; at her loudest, she belted with a gale-force wail worthy of Aretha…channelled the increasing terror of being caught in the spycams’ deadly web, whether calm and stoic, shivering on the floor or twitching like a marionette, Ian Curtis-style. (…) Anyone concerned with the perilous state of civil liberties should see this hauntingly enigmatic, rivetingly disturbing, potently relevant work.”