“The Vigorous first movement throw up any number of striking ideas opened out over three successive intermezzos, the surging then scurrying outer two of which frame one of glacial immobility, before a final Passacaglia brings the soloist and orchestra into an emotional accord exuding real momentum before its sudden evanescence.
Tamara Stefanovich is the fearless soloist here, with Katherine Bryan no less arresting in ‘The White Road’ (2016).
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Even more engrossing is ‘This Departing Landscape’ (2019), its two continuous movements further refining the composer’s modus operandi. Hence a series of disjunctively arrayed motifs that are transmuted into static textures, infused with latent activity that might yield greater melodic impetus beyond the close.”