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Reviews: Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Turning up the heat in a flaming good show
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra The Queen's Hall Five stars IT'S
always refreshing to hear a new work by a contemporary composer who
has mastered the techniques of his craft, can communicate with his
audience and throw in a musical joke or two for good measure.
The SCO commissioned New Zealand composer Lyell Cresswell to write
a Concerto for Chamber Orchestra. He has entitled it Of Smoke and
Bickering Flame - a quotation borrowed from Milton's Paradise Lost
that calls to mind the smoke and flashing flames surrounding the
Messiah's chariot on the third day of his battle against Satan.
The work is ...
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