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Classical

Claude Vivier ought to be a modern classic. Why isn't he?

28 May 2022

9:00 AM

28 May 2022

9:00 AM

I Fagiolini: Re-Wilding The Waste Land

St Martin-in-the-Fields

The Music and Life of Claude Vivier

Queen Elizabeth Hall

Ensemble 360

Crucible Studio Theatre

April is the cruellest month, but May is shaping up quite pleasantly and the daylight streamed in through the east window of St Martin-in-the-Fields at the start of I Fagiolini’s latest concept-concert, Re-Wilding The Waste Land. The centenary of Eliot’s poem is the obvious hook. But whether you’re counting from the Rite of Spring riot in 1913, Schoenberg’s Skandalkonzert the same year, or further back to Strauss’s Salome or Debussy’s Faune, music’s modernist moment occurred some time earlier.

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