In a Dark Time, This Music Will Make You Smile
Four albums by young British composers from the label NMC show a wide-ranging, antic experimentalism.
“Nature” is the first full-length collection of orchestral pieces by the English composer Tansy Davies. Credit.Rikard Österlund
By Seth Colter Walls
April 29, 2021, 8:00 a.m. ET
Last fall, when the world was being told to expect a long, dark winter after what had already been a brutal year, I decided to search for some new, bracing orchestral music. It had been months since I’d been walloped by symphonic forces in a live setting. And if it was to be grim times ahead, I wanted at least some music that gestured toward that sense of scale.
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