Gareth Davies, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra & Mikel Toms - Knehans: Unfinished Earth (2018)

These award-winning works are driven: romantic yet thorny, expressive with edge, concisely expansive with high-wire drama and keening melodies pouring emotion into your heart. A brilliant flute concerto—Tempest—with virtuoso soloist Gareth Davies, principal flute of the London Symphony Orchestra. A dense, passionate and personal three movement orchestral work—Unfinished Earth—teeming with heavy emotional edge and tenuous line. Reminiscent of Lutosławski, Stravinsky and Mahler, this is powerful, contemporary music from a new individual voice. Brilliant and exacting performances by the Brno Philharmonic and conductor Mikel Toms.