The Guardian -
9 May 2022 10:05

Southbank Centre, London A rare immersion in the late Canadian composer - notorious for the manner of his death - reveals patchy beginnings evolving into mature harmonic soundscapes unlike anything else The French Canadian Claude Vivier died in Paris in 1983, at the age of just 34. For a number of years afterwards the gruesome circumstances of his death - stabbed by a 19-year-old man he had invited to spend the night with him - and the fact that Vivier seemed to have anticipated it, seemed to be...
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