Chineke!: Spark Catchers Format:CD Birtwistle's blistering score here comes

Birtwistle's blistering score here comes vividly across especially when all concerned throw themselves into it so wholeheartedly

Chris Dench's wide-ranging extra-musical influences - from Angela Carter and Ludwig Wittgenstein to Thomas Dolby - are displayed on this disc of works written for the acclaimed Australian new music ensemble ELISION: the glittering mosaic of driftglass contrasts with funk

Roger Montgomery Horn

'All the pieces on this disc are in some way related to the idea of ‘complex music’ as they portray highly rationalized materials and notated challenges

Michael Nicolas

Chineke!: Spark Catchers Format:CD Birtwistle's blistering score here comesRelease Date: 17 January 2020 'When I founded Chineke! in 2015, one of the most important aims, as well as creating a top class orchestra comprising a majority of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) musicians, was to champion the music of BME composers, both living and from the past. Over these last three years we have given many performances of new commissions and existing works by some of the UKs leading BME composers and I am delighted that six of