BBCSO/Jiří Bělohlávek – review

Barbican, LondonReceiving its world premiere in this BBC Symphony Orchestra programme under Jiří Bělohlávek was C, by Jiří Kadeřábek. The 33-year-old Czech composer comes from a jazz/pop background and acknowledges such widely divergent influences as Chick Corea and David Bowie, as well as Janáček and Charles Ives. As its title suggests, the 10-minute piece exclusively inhabits the key of C major, starting off with the note itself. It soon sprouts what the composer refers to as tiny me...

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