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A moving vision of the end of time with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

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Reviewed at Elgar Concert Hall, Birmingham on 7 December 2012
Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire
Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Pastel-perfect hell: To See The Invisible
****1
Proms at... Wilton’s: Conference of the Birds
***11
A bracing density of musical incident
*****
Singing from the same Songbook
***11
Birtwistle's early gems mesmerise
****1
Barbican’s Birtwistle at 80 over-eggs the pudding during its exploration of the chamber works
***11
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