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John Casken

composer

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    • Snapshot
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    • Chamber Music
    • Instrumental Music
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Casken’s music - harmonically and texturally dense - refusing to resolve - is . . . rather vibrantly earthy, relentlessly hymning the sheer physicality of the original poem’s concept: nature, tree, cross - experiencing what the human participants in the drama endure.

Arnold Whittall, on The Dream of the Rood, The Musical Times

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forthcoming performances

16 December 2019
Child of Hope, Hymn and Variation on 'The race that long in darkness pined', St Mary’s Church

19 December 2019
Child of Hope, Hymn and Variation on 'The race that long in darkness pined', Holy Trinity Church

10 January 2020
Piano Trio, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama


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The control with which Casken allows tonally-founded harmonies to rise, Alban Berg-like, to the surface, is as remarkable as the fastidiousness of his orchestration, all of which serves to hold concept and craft in ideal balance

David Fanning, on Apollinaire’s Bird , The Telegraph

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