Hayes: Violin Concerto; Slippage; Strides, etc review

Okazaki/Powell/Esbjerg Ensemble/Austin(NMC)The focus of the first disc devoted to Morgan Hayes's music is a fine performance with Keisuke Okazaki as soloist of his 2006 Violin Concerto. It's the longest single span of music (at 17 minutes) the 38-year-old former pupil of Michael Finnissy and Simon Bainbridge has composed so far. Its starting point was a passage from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, in which the character Lucky suddenly erupts into speech for the first time, and there is a se...

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