Fiona Maddocks 

Just stuff people do review – Larry Goves turns real life into sparky music

A young British composer introduces a repertoire that bears repeated exploration, writes Fiona Maddocks
  
  


British composer Larry Goves (born 1980) turns real life – internet dating, threesomes and the like – into diverse, often sparky music in his Trends in Personal Relationships, a five-movement piece for large ensemble performed by the London Sinfonietta under Martyn Brabbins. It's among the distinctive works in this Debut Discs series from NMC featuring young composers. The ever-skilful Oliver Coates travels to wild sonic territories in The Terminus Wreck for solo cello, inspired by Paul Celan's poetry. With André de Ridder, the versatile pianist Sarah Nicolls and Sound Intermedia too, Goves has a fine line-up of musical collaborators. Hard to sum up, this is repertoire to explore, which yields its secrets with each fresh hearing.

 

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