Two Boys; Maurizio Pollini – review

Coliseum, London; Royal Festival Hall, LondonNico Muhly, at just 29, is already an impressionist in sound, his warm and sensual orchestral colours shimmering and glowing underneath a clearly Romantic sensibility. He may be today's golden boy but he's not afraid to pay homage to his influences: Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Adams, Benjamin Britten and Herbert Howells inhabit the score of his new opera Two Boys like welcome old friends joining a conversation. This could make it dull and derivati...

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