Colin Currie’s affinity with Elliott Carter was reinforced when the two men met and discovered a shared sense of humour. The bell-like sonorities of the composer’s brief Figment V, written in 2009 as a present for his teenage grandson, and Toshio Hosokawa’s hypnotic Reminiscence, contrast with the virtuosity of Per Nørgård’s I Ching-inspired Fire Over Water, the impassioned outbursts of Dave Maric’s flamboyant Sense and Innocence and the complexities of Rolf Wallin’s new score.
