He’s only 26, but Mark Simpson is already a leading light of the contemporary music world. He tells Bachtrack about his new commission for Manchester International Festival.
Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic juxtaposed Simpson's oratorio, The Immortal, inspired by mediums and seances, with Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony where life slips away into the void.
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