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July 19, 2014
Review of Contemporary Consort, King’s Lynn Town Hall (EDP 16 July)
The
average ‘music-lover’ may be inclined to expect the burglar alarm that went off
near the start to be indistinguishable from the music but a decent-sized
audience enjoyed this King’s Lynn Festival event of largely contemporary
material. Schubert, represented by his lush String Trio in B flat, wasn’t present
but an astonishingly young Benjamin LA Picard – represented by his melodically
experimental and vibrant Diversions for clarinet, violin, viola and cello, was.
As was an engaging David Matthews, informatively interviewed by Festival
Artistic Director Ambrose Miller to establish the ‘felt’ and tonal basis of Matthews’
modern music, as mentored by Benjamin Britten and in helping to orchestrate
Mahler’s 10th symphony. We saw how committed Sarah Thurlow
(clarinet), Tom Hankey (violin), Vanessa McNaught (viola) and Ben Davies
(cello) – all excellent - are to Mathews’ player-centred pieces: the full range
of each instrument explored and – as in his Roman miniature Actaeon, in which
the hunter is torn apart by his own hounds after seeing the goddess Diana naked
– the player’s physical and emotional limits too. The argument for more
repertoire for this combination is made with the closing performance of
Matthews’ atmospheric and energetic Clarinet Quartet.
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