SCO/Knussen – review

City Halls, GlasgowComposer Oliver Knussen tends to get to the heart of things, writing with a knack for concision that borders on alchemy. Works like the tiny Two Organa (1994) use fleeting gestures to conjure much bigger spaces. Knussen's magic is in distilling grandness (sounds, landscapes) down to essentials and making the results appear natural and fluid. It takes some clarity of purpose to achieve that – or maybe it's a case of good things coming to those who wait, because he is not a sp...

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