Stomp (with Fate and Elvira)

The dark, brooding cloud of fate, that had been hovering over St Petersburg, lifted and drifted west to Sweden, where it made an amorous encounter with a young tightrope walker, Elvira Madigan. They eloped, and headed west again, ending up at a ceilidh in Kilkenny or Kilmarnock, or somewhere...


©James MacMillan 2007


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"Imagine Mozart and Tchaikovsky in kilts, thrown into the middle of a highland fling."
Financial Times 


"...an irreverent deconstruction of the two big works heard earlier — the Tchaikovsky 4th symphony and Mozart’s Elvira Madigan Piano Concerto, K467... Stomp went through all sorts of wacky distortions before being whisked, ceilidh-style, into a punch-drunk jig of delight."
The Times