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Work: Wonderful No-Headed Nightingale

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ComposerBedford, Luke (b. 1978)
PeriodContemporary
Work typeChamber
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Luke Bedford in portrait with the London Sinfonietta at the Purcell Room

This Wednesday, London Sinfonietta presented Luke Bedford: In Portrait – a concert with a format that seemed almost too good to be true. In a short programme combining Luke Bedford’s Wonderful No-Headed Nightingale (2011–12), Renewal (2012–13) and Gérard Grisey’s Périodes (1974), conductor Sian Edwards and the London Sinfonietta beckoned us into a world of shifting soundscapes.
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