Excerpt from a review on Sound Icon’s Friday, February 5th concert at the Fenway Center: “Capturing the moods of snow on a winter night” by David Weininger (bostonglobe.com)
Rather than arrive at some grand statement, “Schnee” does what any good storm does — it opens a dazzling cosmos for you to wander and get lost in. “Winternacht,” written three decades earlier, made for an apt curtain-raiser, a meticulously built piece in which languid melodies foreground a sequence of tiny repeated cells. Dreamlike, even in its most assertive moments, it nevertheless lacked the startling freshness of the composer’s later achievements.