EX CATHEDRA | IgorFest, Fauré and Brighton Festival

I caught the first, a collaboration with Jeffrey Skidmore’s Ex Cathedra choir, comprising the neoclassical Orpheus ballet and Symphony in C, and late scores exemplifying Stravinsky’s reinvention of himself as a vanguard (wholly convincing) serialist: Introitus — TS Eliot in MemoriamVariations — Aldous Huxley in Memoriam and Requiem Canticles. Stravinsky’s arrangement of Bach’s Chorale Variations on Vom Himmel Hoch completed this intriguing programme, bristling with unusual sonorities. (The Sunday TimesRead the rest of the review…