BBCSO/Volkov – review

Barbican, LondonFriday was a great day for British music, not so much on account of the swell of Parry et al billowing under Westminster Abbey's vaults, but because of the UK premiere later that day of James Clarke's marvellous piano concerto. Reflecting Clarke's second career as a painter, the concerto is labelled simply Untitled No 2 and, rather in the manner of an abstract painting, explores a limited number of harmonies and the relation between them. Despite this essentially static framework...

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