Sunday 24 April 2022 7:30PM

Lawrence Power viola, director; Collegium

'Once upon a time...'

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Lawrence Power viola, director
Collegium
Charlotte Spruit violin
Yaore Talibart violin
Katherine Yoon violin
Hana Mizuta Spencer violin
Esther Park violin
Roman Lytwyniw violin
Otoha Tabata viola
Madeleine Pickering viola
Kinga Wojdalska viola
Wallis Power cello
Hugh Mackay cello
Harry Atkinson double bass
Will Duerden double bass
Louis Moisan lute

One of the world’s leading viola players, Lawrence Power founded the string orchestra Collegium back in 2018, its members often performing at another of the musician’s creations, the West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival, which has itself now run for a decade. Intriguing programming with works from the Baroque to the contemporary and including a piece by the leading Austrian composer and pianist Thomas Larcher.

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
- - Timon of Athens Z632
    - Curtain Tune
Thomas Larcher (b.1963)
- - Nucleus
Matthew Locke (c.1621-1677)
- - The Tempest
    - Curtain Tune
Cage (1912-1992)
- - Living Room Music
    - Story
John Woolrich (b.1954)
- - Ulysses Awakes
    - (based on Claudio Monteverdi)
Luke Bedford (b.1978)
- - Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016)
- - The Yellow Cake Revue Op. 88
    - Farewell to Stromness
Interval
Cassandra Miller (b.1976)
- - Just So
Heinrich Biber (1644-1704)
- - Battalia a10
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
- - Chamber Symphony in C minor Op. 110a
    - (transcribed by Barshai)