Reviews

• If one were to give a name to Wyner’s essential and distinctive style, it might be called Organic Expressionism, in that the ideas unfold naturally, out of their own surprising depth, while displaying at every instant the fragility of inevitability.
  
  Concordance opens dramatically with a loud, hammered, broken chord from the piano, then a soft, somber response from the strings, a repeated pattern that is elaborated with each repeat. The hesitant, plaintive character of the opening transforms into a scherzo-like section, resolute and increasingly self-determined in the face of invisible threats. The scherzo then matures into an extended adagio, full of rippling elements that make time vanish, inviting us into the infinite depth of the present moment. The adagio in turn transforms through an alert intermezzo into a deeper, more mature and pensive adagio section filled with sounds of the night (reminiscent of Wyner’s earlier Dances of Atonement) tinged with angst at the ephemeral, but ending in a surprising note of transcendence with a rebirth in a dance rhythm. The piece concludes monumentally with an affirmation of staying power, even as the dance of life moves on, leaving us behind, strangely fulfilled.
  
  Wyner’s Concordance, evoked a sense of the extraordinary luxury of being alive, here and now, to experience the fleeting and irreplaceable present.
  Leon Golub, Boston Musical Intelligencer, 27/01/2013