Rich colourful and multi-layered Carl Vine’s Symphony No.7 (2008) is subtitled ‘scenes from daily life’. The first two ‘scenes’ mirror the same idea from opposite sides: the first allowing competing energies to collide into uniformity the second moving from unison to plurality. The third and fifth are slow meditations on loss and beauty separated by a contrasting scene of skittish energy. The 24-minute works ends with an unnerving danse macabre.
