Reviews: Sparkling with Elgar's Spirit ; Bcmg Cbso Centre

Birmingham Post › February 13, 2006

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There was an unexpected presence at the party Birmingham Contemporary Music Group threw on Saturday to celebrate the 60th birthday of the much-loved composer Vic Hoyland: the spirit of Elgar hovering very close.

Both Hoyland works featured here evoked subconscious links with his great predecessor, who just over a century ago founded the Music Department at Birmingham University where Hoyland has long been a respected member of staff.

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Reviews: Sparkling with Elgar's Spirit ; Bcmg Cbso Centre

His Piano Quintet, actually completed in Worcester, somehow evokes hints of Elgar's own, with elo...

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