![]() ![]() ![]() Too obvious and bombastic even for this composer, perhaps. The last third of the work builds up, fugue-like, from the ground to the skies - but unfortunately this gambit doesn't pay off. It's an exciting conceptual texture and Gordon bases almost the whole work on its possibilities and rotations. The breakneck pace of movement is controlled only by the simplicity of the material, allowing small three-note cells to rotate and collide around each other, often accompanied by the screech of glissandi and swooping trombones as a kind of riotous grounding. Far from, say, apocalyptic or decaying, Gordon's music is exploding with energy and vibrating with joy throughout. Dystopia is a nice title for a so-called 'city symphony' in my view, especially with music as muscular and alive as in this piece. I was at the UK premiere of Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony about five years ago and have been listening to a bootleg of the same recording as on this disc for years, so I won't talk about that one here. 117KB, 526x526px Two bombastic, bright, and optimistic 'symphonies' on this disc - so very Michael Gordon, after all. ![]()
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