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Mark-Anthony Turnage: Sco – programme note (LSO)

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Sco – programme note (LSO)

Sitting at the heart of tonight’s world premiere are two figures of huge importance to Mark-Anthony Turnage. The first, Sir Simon Rattle, for whose 70th birthday Sco was commissioned, is one of the composer’s longest-standing champions. The second is tonight’s soloist, the man who gives Sco its name, John Scofield …

Donghoon Shin: Nachtergebung – programme note and profile (LSO)

Donghoon Shin: Nachtergebung – programme note and profile (LSO)

The poems of Georg Trakl have proved rich source material for composers: Anton Webern, Paul Hindemith, Peter Maxwell Davies and Thea Musgrave have all been drawn to the Austrian expressionist’s rich, macabre imagery. Donghoon Shin, who often looks to literature for inspiration, is the latest …

Abel Selaocoe: Four Spirits – Programme note and profile (LSO)

Abel Selaocoe: Four Spirits – Programme note and profile (LSO)

For Abel Selaocoe, tradition is something to be both revered and dismantled. His Four Spirits is, on the face of it, a concerto for cello, voice and percussion. There are soloists and an orchestra. There are four movements. But that is where any resemblance to the ‘Classical’ concerto ends …

Fazil Say: Violin Concerto – Programme Note and Profile (LSO)

Fazil Say: Violin Concerto – Programme Note and Profile (LSO)

Fazıl Say and Patricia Kopatchinskaja began performing together as an electrifying violinpiano duo in 2004. Four years later they released a CD of works by Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel and Fazıl Say himself, exhibiting a kindred radicalism …