Monday 21 October 2019 1:00PM

Lawrence Power viola, violin; Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

Couperin, Ravel, Benjamin and more

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Lawrence Power viola, violin
Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

In this recital by one of the world’s leading viola players, Lawrence Power introduces to the UK a recent work by one of the UK’s outstanding contemporary composers, supported by the Viola Commissioning Circle and launched at the Verbier Festival in July.

François Couperin (1668-1733)
- - Première Suite pour viole
    - I. Prélude
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
- - Le tombeau de Couperin
    - V. Menuet (arr. Lawrence Power/Simon Crawford-Phillips)
Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960)
Thomas Adès (b.1971)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
- - Tombeau de Claude Debussy
    - Chorale
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
- - 4 Petites mélodies
    - Elégie (arr. Lawrence Power/Simon Crawford-Phillips)
- with:
Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Co-commissioned by Verbier Festival, BBC Radio 3, Moritzburg Festival, Aspen Festival, UKARIA Cultural Centre, South Australia, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam, and underwritten by The Viola Commissioning Circle