Neuwirth portrait – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonOlga Neuwirth was the subject of the second of the London Sinfonietta's portrait concerts this season. The 43-year-old Austrian is best known in Britain for Lost Highway, her music-theatre piece based on David Lynch's film, which ENO staged in 2008. But as the Sinfonietta programme showed, she is a hard composer to pin down.All the pieces were UK premieres, though one of them, the 2006 trumpet concerto Miramondo Multiplo, had been heard in the UK before in its larger...

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