When we go to a concert and experience the musical brilliance of others, we should give full and demonstrative voice to our appreciation afterwards, writes Simon Heffer.
John Adams's music was so busy keeping the world of film noir and Gil Evans at just the right distance that it rarely acquired a definite identity of its own. Rating: * * *
Howard Skempton's miniature compositions ranged from the improbable to the ecstatic at this Birmingham Contemporary Music Group concert. Rating: * * * *