Music of Today/Philharmonia – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonThis season marks the start of Unsuk Chin's artistic directorship of the Philharmonia's Music of Today series. Eclectic and cosmopolitan in her choice of material, she scheduled music by Johannes Schöllhorn for her first concert, allowing us to hear excerpts from his Anamorphoses, a wry, postmodern take on Bach's The Art of Fugue.The title borrows a term from painting. An anamorphosis is a distorted image that requires a shift of vantage point in order to make sense: ...

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