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Article: Classical Music Live: Bournemouth SO Wessex Hall, Poole
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 4, 1996
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Judith Bingham's new work, The Temple at Karnak, opened the
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's concert last Wednesday. Born in
1952, Bingham has recently expanded on her reputation as a composer
of fastidiously crafted and approachable vocal music with the
permieres of two large-scale orchestral works, Chartres and Beyond
Redemption. Her new piece, just 13 minutes long, was inspired by
the Scottish artist David Roberts's watercolours depicting Egypt at
the beginning of the 19th century, "its monuments half- buried in
sand, deeply evocative and mysterious".
The Temple at Karnak builds from the solid tread of the opening,
cut through by a blare of trumpets, via a sequence of faster ...