Howard Skempton Portrait | Classical review

CBSO Centre, BirminghamMuch of Howard Skempton's music consists of miniatures, tiny distillations of a lyrical or harmonic essence, but when he works on a larger scale the results are just as compelling and utterly distinctive. Only the Sound Remains, for viola and small orchestra, is Skempton's latest work for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, commissioned for its violist Christopher Yates, and takes its title from the first line of Edward Thomas's The Mill-Water.The sense of nostalgia and e...

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