The full orchestra produced its best, most integrated playing in "Prelude", an astonishingly mature composition by one of the violinists, 17-year-old Roger Teichmann. At times reminiscent of Martinu, the brooding atmosphere and bold orchestration make this a work of great courage and perception, and one I hope to hear again before too long.
Mervyn Capel, Cambridge Evening News
The main feature of the evening was the world première of Love in Time, a song cycle by Oxford composer Roger Teichmann. The nine songs, set to poems by W. H. Auden - also, of course, a former Oxford luminary - focus on the dual themes of love and the passing of time. Teichmann's music powerfully emphasises the antagonism between love and time, as in Leap Before You Look, and the need to value love while it lasts, as expressed in Another Time and the final song, Their Lonely Betters. Fraser has worked with Teichmann before, and it showed in her competent handling of the different moods of the songs. Happily, the composer was on hand to share the audience's appreciative applause.
Nicola Lisle, Oxford Times
Throughout, the bass clarinet added its particular timbre, but with the specially commissioned Fantasy Sonata by Oxford composer Roger Teichmann, we heard the instrument played by all four members [of the Scottish Clarinet Quartet] in a thoughtful and poetic short work, in which the instrument's reedy, bass timbre was given full rein.
Hugh Vickers, Oxford Times
Central to the programme was the world première of The Serpent God, a cantata for choir, soloists and orchestra by local composer Roger Teichmann…..The piece is a setting of text from Ovid's Metamorphoses, which tells of the Romans' quest to find the Greek god of healing, Aesculapius, when their city becomes ravaged by the plague. The combined forces … gave a compelling and stylish performance, clearly relishing the dramatic content and the composer's melodic and rhythmic inventiveness.
Nicola Lisle, Oxford Times