Britten Sinfonia/Muhly/Collon

Muhly, who shared conducting duties with Nicholas Collon, had planned the programme, framing four of his own works with pieces by the two composers who perhaps have influenced him more than any others: Philip Glass (the solo-piano Hot Rocks, played by Muhly), and Steve Reich (the ensemble piece City Life). In Muhly's music, though, there seems more of Reich's rougher-edged sound than of Glass's suaver pulsations, especially in the rhythmic dislocations of a piece such as Step Team, written for the Chicago Symphony three years ago. For a composer still in his 20s, By All Means, from 2004, seemed almost prehistoric, but its quizzical attitude towards the world of serialism suggests that Muhly's musical personality was already distinctive. That personality seems most impressive when confronted by other sensibilities. In his arrangements of three songs for the Vermont folk singer Sam Amidon, who was joined for the third by Beth Orton, Muhly ­surrounded the ­originals with apparently unlikely cocoons of orchestral pulsings, and shimmers from a celesta that he played himself. In The Only Tune the ­process of ­dislocation was taken further, ­deconstructing the folksong The Two Sisters, and surrounding it with sampled sound in an extraordinarily powerful way. There were echoes of early Reich and of other American ­experimentalists like Robert Ashley, but the result was original and utterly personal. Reverb continues until ­Sunday. Box office: 0844 482 8008.