The idea of flames without light derives from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Nicholson translates it into correspondingly lugubrious patterns, alleviating the gloom through wind multiphonics and keyboard harmonics – smoke and fire, as it were.

...in Thomas Simaku’s Soliloquy IV the solo clarinet acquires an astonishingly vocal quality.

Peter Palmer, Tempo, October 2013 (full review).

Written in memory of the great clarinettist Alan Hacker, George Nicholson's Darkness Visible takes its play of tonal shades from an image of John Milton's. Of another five deftly crafted pieces – one of them for clarinet solo – Antony Clare's Fall Of The King yields an atmospheric tour de force for the duo. Warmly recommended.

Nottingham Post review, 10th June 2013