Influenced by the ecstatic pure melody of the Japanese Shakuhachi and the soft, infinitely subtle tones of Javanese Gamelan, Anne Boyd’s Angklung is music of radical simplicity: it employs only four notes (one of which can be retuned to a non-tempered F-flat) and their octave extensions. Boyd once described Angklung – which was premiered by Roger Woodward at the 1974 Edinburgh Festival – as ‘the only perfect piece I ever wrote’ and ...