Catherine Lamb – portions transparent/opaque (World Première)

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John Blackburn

Like your recently featured Naomi Pinnock work “The field is woven”, Lamb’s work here is sonically generous but musically rather meager, isn’t it? An episodic chain of subtly shifting sound and color has its attractions, but so does the wind whistling through a copse of trees. The difference between whistling wind and a work by, say, Stravinsky, is vast, but here the difference is smaller—and it seems valid to ponder the question, why?, and to question not only why composers content themselves with this minimalist sonic aesthetic, but listeners as well.

Appealing sounds to be sure, with evident craft and discerning aesthetic, but all in the service of rather thin gruel, I’m afraid

[…] revised and expanded portions transparent/opaque, given its first performance last Monday, with the incomplete version performed in 2014. The movement titles have changed – from “expand”, “saturate”, […]

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