SCO/Swensen – review

City Halls, GlasgowSally Beamish's Percussion Concerto Dance Variations, written for Colin Currie who gave the UK premiere with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Joseph Swensen, is a work of considerable brilliance and originality. The title, however, doesn't give us a full indication of its scope and richness.Beamish's inspiration is the vision of the seven deadly sins in Langland's Piers Plowman. Each sin has its own dance, which draws its material from plainchant and open medieval harmony. S...

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