Skempton: Bolt from the Blue – review

Daniel Becker/Exaudi/James WeeksThere are 37 tracks on this skilful interweaving of Howard Skempton's works for piano and those for unaccompanied voices. But as his admirers know so well, Skempton is the master of the unassuming miniature, and each of these tiny pieces says more in just a couple of minutes (or just seconds in some cases) than many composers manage in 10 times as long. A number of the piano pieces that Daniel Becker plays with such winning simplicity are tributes or memorials ...

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