BBCSSO/Volkov – review

City Halls, GlasgowWhat a pity we don't hear Richard Ayres in the UK more often. Since moving to the Netherlands in the late 80s – he went to study with Louis Andriessen and ended up staying – he has made his musical home on the continent, but remains one of our most imaginative and compassionate composers. His scores are wacky but easy to relate to, full of beautiful, fantastical colours that skew material we're generally familiar with in ways we're generally not. Ilan Volkov and the BBC Sc...

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