Recent reviews

3 December 2006, The Sunday Times
Into the Little Hill

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Certainly, it was the eerie beauty and uncanny originality of the music that made the dominant impression on me. The scoring is remarkable - for a sort of "alienated" folk band including pairs of basset horns and cornets, a contrabass clarinet, a cimbalom and string players who double on banjo or mandolin. There are passages of ethereal delicacy, silken slowness, but these are contrasted with sudden fiercenesses, as in Benjamin's recent orchestral Palimpsests. Bass timbres are beguiling, the tutti sound is at once bizarre and delectable: I wanted more of it.

Paul Driver

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