A guide to Brian Ferneyhough's music

His compositions are the ultimate in complexity. So how to approach the works of this philosophically demanding musician?Here's a question. What is complexity in music? Is there any music more complex than, say, the six-part Ricercar, with its six independent but symbiotically related strata of ever-changing musical information, from Bach's Musical Offering? Has anyone in the 20th or 21st century come close to demanding as much from his or her listeners and performers than JS Bach did in that pi...

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