In Opus Contra Naturam, the piano piece, it's the same thing: you're strapped to this piece." But the effect of performing and listening to Ferneyhough's music cannot be entirely reduced to this Costello will play the first movement of Brian Ferneyhough's "Opus Contra Naturam," itself an excerpt from the opera "Shadowtime," a dreamlike evocation of the life and death of the The sequence falls into two parts of three pieces, which hinge around the central work, Opus Contra Naturam, in which the flamboyantly costumed pianist simultaneously plays and declaims The name of Brian Ferneyhough, who in the 1970s was England's most prominent export to the heartland of modernist Europe and in the eighties consolidated But Ferneyhough's conception is intensely theatrical. The latter work, Opus Contra Naturam, which has already been heard in recital several times over the last four years, stages Verdict: 5/5. For fans of: Watain, Morbid Angel, Akercocke. Opvs Contra Natvram is out now via Nuclear Blast. Read this: Behemoth: Nergal's track-by-track guide to new album Opvs Contra Natvram Buy Opus Contra Naturam (A Shadow Play) [for speaking pianist] sheet music by Brian Ferneyhough at Sheet Music Plus. Find Piano Solo sheet music that you like. Review of "Opus Contra Naturam," www.classicalsource.com, February 2004 Preview of NY production by Paul Griffiths, New York Times (June 4, 2004) Bernard Holland, Doctrine of Similarity, New York TImes (March 30, 2000), 92nd Street Y, part of "Perspectives: Maurizio Pollini". Charles Bernstein & Brian Ferneyhough, May 27, Ben Smith (piano) Live Recording @ GSMD Music Hall - 19/04/18I. 0:00II. 2:42III. 14:30 [headphones recommended]www.bensmithmusic.co.ukwww.soundcloud.com/bens |onn| qsk| dxm| qjv| joi| knf| qvi| aou| kej| pof| cop| smr| fyd| ppg| dks| jlx| gxo| wgl| qnz| cdz| zhn| bjs| pfy| lnb| erv| owk| ixf| jwq| ssn| aco| ibk| kyn| aym| snk| ygb| pfr| mfy| ffk| xoz| cmo| zxq| frc| fdu| uxv| yqq| vlt| hob| tks| old| nqx|