TheArtsDesk‘s Graham Rickson has a new review for our Sean Hickey: Concertos recording:
“Sean Hickey’s 2007 Cello Concerto solves the problem of balancing soloist with orchestra by keeping the accompaniment spare and light… recalling several well-known 20th century cello concertos – those by Walton and Shostakovich come to mind. Like them, Hickey enjoys unusual sound combinations – the concerto’s slow movement contains a beguiling, quirky duet for cello and bass clarinet, as well as an extended percussion-drenched cadenza.…
“Hickey’s Clarinet Concerto is … well-proportioned – a work that leaves you wishing it was longer. There’s an overabundance of memorable ideas in the first movement, and the orchestral writing is deft and colourful. Clarinettist Alexander Fiterstein delivers liquid slurs across the instrument’s range … a good humoured, lyrical work, idiomatically scored.” —Graham Rickson, TheArtsDesk
Read the full review on www.theartsdesk.com!
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