BBCSSO/Brabbins – review

Old Fruitmarket, GlasgowWhile extended 75th birthday tributes for Philip Glass were going on across town, Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra honoured a composer who, had he not been killed in a hit-and-run in 1981, would also have been 75 this year. In his own eccentric way Cornelius Cardew was every bit the maverick that Glass is. His most epic work, The Great Learning, is a seven-hour setting of Confucius designed for amateur musicians to pitch in; Cardew himself said that...

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