Ben Foskett: Dinosaur Composer_Butler; Martin ‘The best music of all

‘The best music of all comes with the authoritative control of structure and timbre in Hannah Kendall’s The Spark Catchers’ The Times

and the performances were typically excellent’ – Andrew Clement

their new works – two quartets and a quintet – are a reminder that the medium has thrived for some 250 years not merely by adapting to change

Originally issued with BBC Music Magazine in 1995

Ben Foskett: Dinosaur Composer_Butler; Martin ‘The best music of allThis survey of Ben Foskett's work spans 10 years, from the brooding Five Night Pieces for piano (2002) to Cinq Chansons a Hurle Vent a deceptively simple setting of poems by French writer Laure Salama, written from the point of view of characters in Wuthering Heights, for soprano and saxophone. Between these come the orchestral From Trumpet, built up from a single rhythmic cell; elegaic On from Four, commissioned for Manchester ensemble Psappha for