As for the music, that too was like a parable of Youth and Experience. Three of the five pieces were by younger composers, Larry Goves, David Fennessy and Andrew Norman. They were all engaging, sometimes moving, but none seemed perfectly focused. By contrast Tansy Davies's piano concerto Nature (brilliantly played by Huw Watkins) gave that satisfying sense of hitting the nail bang on the head. The hilarious musical portrait of Lisbon by Gerald Barry was even more blazingly exact. I've always thought of Barry as the eternally youthful anarchist, but in the context of this show he seemed like an Old Master.
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