Michael Steinberg says 'I hear in this Symphony an extraordinary feeling for the sound of poetry and for its meanings a sure skill in timing and in plotting the motions from event to event and beyond any question that gift with…
Study for ?Metamorphosis? for solo bassoon was composed by Oliver Knussen in the early 1970s but was withdrawn and later revised by the composer in 2018. Two earlier versions of the piece exist: an incomplete copy of the work?s ea…
'a little jewel of a five-minute orchestral piece.'-Edward Greenfield The Guardian 17 June 1988This is the orchestral suite from Knussen's opera Higglety Pigglety Pop.
