Music of Today/Philharmonia/Segerstam

Royal Festival Hall, LondonTo See the ­Summer Sky, a work by the ­increasingly ­prominent 28-year-old ­Scottish composer Helen Grime, had its ­premiere in the latest of the ­Philharmonia's series, and was vividly ­performed by ­violinist Maya Iwabuchi and violist Rachel Roberts. This four-movement duo has something in ­common with the nature-inspired music of the early 20th-century English pastoralists, though not in a ­derivative way. Its alternatively ­delicate...

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