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A brief history of creation

Jonathan Dove (f. 1959)

Reviews (4)

BBC music magazine

2018 Christmas

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Daniel Jaffé

2018 Christmas

"A splashy, technicolor portrayal of 'the birth of the Earth', written for the Hallé Children's Choir and Orchestra, its Hollywood-style soundworld may delight young performers who enjoy John Williams-scored blockbusters: Jonathan Dove similarly takes ideas from some ot the 20th century's most colourful scores ... Gaia Theory ... presents a pleasant churn of mannerisms from John Adams and Steve Reich, but again this pleasant but unmemorable work scarcely demonstrates the qualities which have lately earned Dove so much admiration from both musicians and audiences".

Diapason

2019 septembre

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Benoît Fauchet

2019 septembre

Opus

2018, nr. 85

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Hanna Höglund

2018, nr. 85

"På denna nya skiva är det Hallés entusiastiska barnkör från Manchester som axlar rollen av berättare i Doves och librettisten Alasdair Middletons musikaliska skapelseberättelse "A Brief History of Creation" från 2016. Stort ljud, högt tempo, starka färger, myt, naturvetenskap och musik för alla ... som vill väl och har så gott humör att det är omöjligt att värja sig ... Dove ... lyckas vända intrycken från en expedition till Arktis smältande isar till något ljust, livskraftigt ... Doves mål har varit att komponera utan att peka finger och vara förmanande. Att bringa hopp".

The gramophone

2018 November

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Richard Whitehouse

2018 November

"Master of musical pragmatism, Jonathan Dove is also capable of thinking on a large scale ... and A Brief History of Creation (2016) marries accessibility with ambition to an effective degree ... As a coupling, Gaia Theory (2014) could not be more appropriate ... Performances of both works could hardly be bettered, nor the wide-ranging sound accorded these premieres, and ... its enthusiasm cannot be gainsaid".