Birtwistle The Axe Manual / Tamara Stefanovich / Metal Wood Skin: the Colin Currie Percussion Festival / Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
"A dream team… [Currie and Stefanovich] are new music specialists with a gift for grace and dexterity, even in the most complex works. The score sets up a range of sophisticated relationships between piano and percussion, from sympathetic resonances to complex interplays of stretto and hocket. Yet none of this fazes the two players, nor ever challenges their close ensemble, seemingly telepathic in its precision … Currie’s confident and unhurried movements gave the music an air of logic and natural flow, in marked contrast to the unpredictable and often erratic rhythms that he was actually playing.”
The Arts Desk, December 2014