Howard Skempton's Lento

Published: Nov. 27, 2011, 12:05 a.m.

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Artist Tom Phillips on Howard Skempton\'s Lento for orchestra, a completely tonal piece that he admires for achieving "content with simplicity"; Gillian Moore puts it in the context of the English experimentalist tradition; and the composer himself explains in detail the process by which he developed his initial sketches into the finished work.

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