
· Wigmore Hall · London
Echoes of rousing horn calls and the Romantic images they evoke resound in Alec Frank-Gemmill’s lunchtime recital. Lamento d’Orfeo , the first of Volker David Kirchner’s Poemi from 1986, recalls fragments drawn from Mahler’s Seventh Symphony and elsewhere in its visceral portrait of the sorrow of Orpheus, while York Bo