Terje Isungset's ice instruments create cool classics | Tom Serivice

Purcell and Vivaldi are all very well, but it's a modern, avant-garde Norwegian who sends shivers down my spineSnow, ice, and frost music. We can do better than Debussy's The Snow is Dancing, than Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden or Vivaldi's Winter from The Four Seasons, better even than Purcell's Frost Scene, George Benjamin's A Mind of Winter, or Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen's Schnee (er, Snow), to give just a few highlights of frost-nipped classical music (even if the Abrahamsen, if you ...

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