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Manchester, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall: Gordon Crosse's L'enfant sauvage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

Paul Conway
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Contemporary music ensemble Psappha gave three world premières in a concert at the University of Manchester's Cosmo Rodewald Hall on 8 March 2013. Their programme began with first performances of brief works by two young composers connected with the University. I Lost My Way in Dixieland, by Thomas Jarvis (b.1991), was a deftly realized deconstruction and reinvention of a popular jazz style, with a throwaway ending that made an apt parting gesture for a witty and enjoyable pastiche. And Sempadan, by Sayyid Shafiee (b.1987), made effective use of offstage trumpet and trombone interacting with on-stage clarinet, percussion and double bass, to suggest the concept of two different but complementary cultures.

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First Performances
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Tempo , Volume 67 , Issue 266 , October 2013 , pp. 76 - 78
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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References

1 Lyrita SRCD.259; Lyrita SRCD.313 and NMC D058. It is also worth noting that one of his first pieces to adopt a characteristically dramatic opposition of styles, the Concerto da camera for solo violin wind and percussion (1962), is included in the Melos Ensemble retrospective 11-CD box set issued in 2011 (EMI 5099991851420).

2 A recording of this work features on a 2010 Prima Facie CD (PFCD004).

3 The others are Ariadne, for solo oboe and an ensemble of twelve players (1972), available on the Lyrita release SRCD259, and Thel, for solo flute, two horns and double string septet (1975), commissioned by Richard Adeney.