Donnacha Dennehy: Limina album review – joyously unfettered music is a thrill in motion

McCarthy/Waarts/National Symphony Orchestra Ireland/McAdams (Nonesuch) Dennehy’s Limina, based on areas of the body, is firmly grounded in the harmonic series, and sparklingly executed here, while Stephen Waarts gives a bravura performance of the Violin Concerto These two concertos, beautifully paired, again find Donnacha Dennehy writing music that is both firmly grounded – both rhythmically and in his fascination with the harmonic series – and, to the ear at least, joyously unfettered. Limin...

By Erica Jeal