Casken’s music - harmonically and texturally dense - refusing to resolve - is . . . rather vibrantly earthy, relentlessly hymning the sheer physicality of the original poem’s concept: nature, tree, cross - experiencing what the human participants in the drama endure.

Arnold Whittall, on The Dream of the Rood, The Musical Times

forthcoming performances

16 September 2018
Motet of the Rood, Brinkburn Priory

2 December 2018
Memorial, Whitworth Hall, Manchester

7 February 2019
Winter Reels, St Michael’s Ancoats


more performances

The control with which Casken allows tonally-founded harmonies to rise, Alban Berg-like, to the surface, is as remarkable as the fastidiousness of his orchestration, all of which serves to hold concept and craft in ideal balance

David Fanning, on Apollinaire’s Bird , The Telegraph