SCO/Ticciati/Suckling – review

City Halls, GlasgowHebridean psalm singing and chaos theory, Jorge Luis Borges and the harmonic overtone series. Unlikely bedfellows, but Martin Suckling fuses these influences and more into his engrossing, haunting and self-assured storm, rose, tiger. The Glasgow-born composer has been earmarked as an emerging talent; this latest work, written for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, confirms the distinctness of his voice. It couples fierce intellect with the musical sensibility of a fine violinist...

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