The work’s world premiere by the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo at the Witten Days for New Chamber Music in 2014 had already sparked euphoria. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung described the performance as “brilliant” and wrote: “One is thoroughly entertained by the spectacular interplay between the pianists and the electronics. […] The resulting temporal polyphony is so refreshing that time never drags.” The Guardian was full of praise following the UK premiere: “At times the layers of sound roared around, as if the listener were being trampled by the four riders of the apocalypse or in the midst of a hailstorm. At other moments, the electronics chimed, crackled, gurgled, snapped, whispered, dissolved and caressed. A feast for the experiential completist, or even for the merely naive and curious.”
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On 14 August, the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo will give the American premiere of Philippe Manoury’s composition Le temps, mode d’emploi at the TIME:SPANS Festival in New York.
