Neue Kritikenmehr...
Pastel-perfect hell: To See The Invisible
Emily Howard's new opera, an Aldeburgh Festival commission, takes an ambitiously modernist approach to a dystopian story of loneliness: a tough, but thought-provoking work.
Proms at... Wilton’s: Conference of the Birds
The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group present an ambitious mixture of experimental chamber music and disquieting monodrama.
A bracing density of musical incident
Oliver Knussen and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group excel in a cunningly linked group of works from the old (mid 1980s) to the brand new.
Singing from the same Songbook
John Woolrich's Songbook project provided the vocal material on show at the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group recital at Wigmore Hall, featuring sopranos Gillian Keith and Rebecca von Lipinski.
Birtwistle's early gems mesmerise
Lean yet nuanced performances from Oliver Knussen and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in commemoration of Harrison Birtwistle's 80th birthday
Barbican’s Birtwistle at 80 over-eggs the pudding during its exploration of the chamber works
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group are masterful, but chamber works lack context during the birthday celebrations at Milton Court.