Endymion/Exaudi – review

Purcell Room, LondonIt is always tempting when hearing unfamiliar work to leaf through the programme for contextual clues. This was unnecessary for the two new pieces performed here – Joanna Baillie's Artificial Environment No 6, and Philip Venables's Numbers 76-80: Tristan und Isolde – because the texts printed to accompany them formed part of the performance. This was surprising in the Baillie, whose programme text appeared to be an authentic explanatory note.Or was it? One sentence read: ...

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