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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy
Dear god... that's outstanding! I'd love to hear your thoughts on the performance or on his work in general.
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Well, excerpts of other performances of it (including its world premiere) can be heard online,
but even tho it was nice to experience it, there seems to be some strange need lately for some composers -
younger ones like
Jóhannsson and older guys like
Gavin Bryars (whose
"The Fifth Century"
I saw live just 30 minutes later as well as
"Jesus' Blood..." and
"...Titanic" two days later) -
to want to suddenly be the next
John Taverner (the 20th/21st Century one, not the 16th Century one).
The extra redeeming quality tho, for me, is that he is still young(ish) and willing to work with a
nice cross-section of younger composers/performers that he seems to feed off of in a creative way.