Proms 2022: Hannah Eisendle – Heliosis (UK Première)

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Jim

“there’s barely a moment during Heliosis when the pulse doesn’t go away” – I don’t think the double negative is what you mean?

Interesting that in the Gavin Higgins review you said ‘what’s in a name’, because I find Higgins’s title much more problematic. Concerto Grosso implies something specific musically that the piece doesn’t really deliver on; I was expecting some interesting interplay between the two ensembles, but the use of the ensembles were quite unremarkable. I enjoyed that piece much more on a second listen, partly because it sounds much more blended on recording than live, which works to the piece’s advantage; I found it frustrating to listen to live. RAH’s acoustic certainly didn’t help.

Gary

Unlike Heliosis’s programmatic title, I don’t find the Concerto Grosso title problematic. It may not conform to a Baroque definition, but then expecting it to in the 21st century is rather like worrying because a symphony has ten movements or doesn’t have a minuet and trio as its third movement.

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