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Angel fighter


Reviews (3)


The guardian

d. 14. May 2015

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Andrew Clements (musikanmelder)

d. 14. May 2015

"Angel Fighter, composed for the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, is a spare and strikingly original piece of dramatic storytelling. It presents the Old Testament tale of Jacob wrestling an angel as a ritualised game between the tenor Jacob (Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts) and the counter-tenor Angel (Andrew Watts) and climaxes in one of the great dramatic moments in Birtwistle's concert music".


BBC music magazine

2015 September

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Helen Wallace (musikanmelder)

2015 September

"Birtwistle unleashes all his powers as a stage composer onto Stephen Plaice's text, using the whole building to create a thrilling dramatisation of the Bible story ... Pungent pizzicato rhythms, visceral trumpets, groaning lower brass and winds shrilling overhead drive the three-way confrontation ... The London Sinfonietta, under David Atherton, lend it both soul and a zinging edge".


The gramophone

2015 July

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Arnold Whittall

2015 July

"Vurdering: Editor's choice" - "Anyone in 2015 disposed to expect ageing dinosaurs going through the motions should be struck by the energy and sharpness of response in these recordings ... Angel Fighter owes as much to terse commentaries from choir and instruments as to extended dialogues between the admirable solo singers, and Atherton couples scrupulous attention to detail with exemplary alertness to the steadily unfolding shape of the whole ... This cd is a pungent and persuasive statement about what properly serious music can achieve today".