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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
John Casken
* Snapshot *
Forthcoming Performances
- 21 May 2022
- Haunting Bough I and II, Tetbury Goods Shed, Cirencester Road,
- 24 June 2022
- The Shackled King, St Andrew’s Church, Aldborough, Aldborough,
- 22 July 2022
- Lust of Roots (World Premiere), St John’s Church, Buxton,
- 16 September 2022
- Lines from a Wanderer, Sint-Janskerk, Maastricht,
- 17 September 2022
- Lines from a Wanderer, Sint-Janskerk, Maastricht,
- all events
John Casken
* The Fuller Picture *
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 serve to hold concept and craft in ideal balance
David Fanning, on Apollinaire’s Bird, The Telegraph