Vic Hoyland
Composer
Composer
Quintet
1st Performance and subsequent performances, Arditti Quartet. This excerpt taken from the recording at the CBSO Centre, 2005, with the pianist Nicholas Hodges.
for piano and strings
Commissioned by the Almeida Festival
17’ 00” duration 1990
1st Performance
3 July 1990, Yvar Mikhashoff and the Arditti Quartet
Review
Here was music which began with poised restraint, but which developed into a score of virile aggression and tense activity, a taut and commanding piece.
Geoffrey Norris, Weekend Telegraph