Hebrides Ensemble – review

St Andrew's in the Square, GlasgowThe Hebrides Ensemble specialise in 20th-century (as opposed to broadly "contemporary") chamber music, with a forthcoming season that contains a couple heavyweights of the repertoire: Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, Schoenberg's expressionist melodrama Pierrot Lunaire. This season opener was more of a bits-and-pieces lineup of American pioneers that included music by Ives, Adams, Reich and, bizarrely, Jennifer Higdon.But it was the unique and vivid sound...

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