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Booth, Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall online review - contemporary music programme lacks diversity
Excellent playing and singing can’t disguise the absence of variety
by Bernard HughesWednesday, 28 April 2021
The Nash Ensemble with soprano Claire Booth
Wigmore Hall does not dish up a great deal of contemporary music, preferring a menu of mainstream chamber music.
Wigmore Hall does not dish up a great deal of contemporary music, preferring a menu of mainstream chamber music. But this programme by the Nash Ensemble offered a different kind of mainstream: within the world of contemporary music this was a middle-of-the-road offering. A roster of composers including Harrison Birtwistle, Simon Holt and Mark-Antony Turnage, all at one time