Review of "Battle-Flags" and "Fire-Flowers"

Writing for the Calgary Herald, Kenneth DeLong wrote admiringly of Luminous' Voices’ Brahms and Wadsworth concert, which paired Brahms’ “Ein Deutsches Requiem” with two new works by Zachary. DeLong wrote:

Since no composer today writes in the style of Brahms, it is all too easy for the connection between these works to seem artificial, forced or arbitrary. But Wadsworth has too much experience with choral music and too much taste and musical judgement to fall into this trap. Together a splendid account of the Requiem by Luminous Voices, it was Wadsworth’s contributions that gave the concert its unique feeling and atmosphere — an “across the generations” mood that gracefully linked past and present, all in a sober reflection on death in the context of war.

Click here to read the full review in the Calgary Herald.