Helen Grime: Chamber Music review – clarity and colour from one of Britain’s most exciting young composers

Hebrides Ensemble

(Delphian)

Informed by Ted Hughes, TS Eliot and the natural world, Grime’s smaller-scale chamber pieces are alive with instrumental texture

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t has been mostly through her succession of successful high-profile orchestral commissions that Helen Grime has become one of the most prominent voices among the younger generations of British composers. In that process of recognition Grime’s smaller-scale works have received relatively little attention, but as this collection of seven recordings from the Hebrides Ensemble shows, the same qualities that characterise her largest orchestral canvases distinguish her work on the smallest scale too.