Grossman Ensemble; John Corkill; Ian Ding; Kyle Flens; Cynthia Yeh; Phil Pierick; Fredonia Wind Ensemble; Nadina Mackie; Alexander Hersh; Tom Hicks; Adam Rosenblatt; Garrett Arney; Nonoka Mizukami; Tim Weiss; Stefan Asbury; Paula Holcomb - Augusta Read Thomas: Terpsichore's Box of Dreams

Previous instalments in this long-running survey of Augusta Read Thomas's oeuvre have ranged far and wide within a catalogue that spans some 30 years to date. In contrast, we here explore a variety of works of more immediately recent vintage (the earliest work here dates from 2018), and between them fill out a vividly coloured snapshot of Thomas' irrepressible compositional persona as it stands at present. Many of her long-standing preoccupations are to be found in this collection: the love of dance which propels the music into a tirelessly evolving voyage in both rhythmic and narrative terms; the iridescent, bell-saturated sonic environment that fills her musical landscapes with light and clarity; the sense of jazz auras acting as guiding spirits propelling the music on its course with its restless, hocketing rhythms and penetrating harmonic flavours; a celebration and understanding of instrumental virtuosity; the overall sense of her music engaged in a deep-seated interaction between the present and the past.