BCMG/Power – review

CBSO Centre, BirminghamA week that began at the Barbican with Jonathan Harvey's musical visions of transcendence and the beyond ended in Birmingham with a very different meditation on death. First performed in 1999, Gérard Grisey's Quatre Chants Pour Franchir le Seuil is one of the masterpieces from the final decades of the 20th century. That these settings of texts from four civilisations, which deal with "crossing the threshold" from life to death, were completed just before Grisey died sudde...

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