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30/10/2008

Petroc Trelawny presents violinist Viktoria Mullova's in an eclectic programme including music by Bach, Bartok, Weather Report, The Hollies, Matthews, Trainer and Bracht.

Petroc Trelawny presents the second of Russian violinist Viktoria Mullova's Queen Elizabeth Hall's Artist in Focus concerts. She is joined by some musical friends from outside the classical world for an eclectic programme of music including Bach and Bartok as well as contemporary and jazz works.

There is also Knots, a mini-concerto by Fraser Trainer, plus arrangements of pop songs by Weather Report and The Hollies by Viktoria's cellist husband Matthew Barley.

Viktoria Mullova (violin)
Matthew Barley (cello)
Paul Clarvis (percussion)
Paul Griffiths (guitar)
Julian Joseph, Fraser Trainer (piano)
Sam Walton (percussion)
Peter Whyman (clarinet, saxophone)

Bach: Prelude (Partita in E)
Bartok, transcr. Barley: Duos for violin and cello
Weather Report, arr. Barley: Pursuit of the Woman
John Lewis/Bratsch, arr. Barley: Django
The Hollies, arr. Barley: The Air That I Breathe
Matthews: Duo for violin and marimba
Trainer: Knots
Bratsch, arr. Barley: Er Nemo Klantz

Followed by Play to the Nation, a celebration of amateur orchestras across the UK:

Shay, Fisher and Goodwin, arr. Tom Kubis: When You're Smiling
The Innovations Jazz Orchestra.

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 2 (First Movement)
Cy Coleman:Rhythm of Life
Flutes and Co
Suzanne de Lozey (conductor)

Alfonso Romero: Legend
Ealing Youth Orchestra
Leon Gee (conductor)

Paul Burnell: finale from Sounding Out
Yorkshire Late Starters Strings
George Kennaway (conductor)

Handel: Two Dances from Water Music
Oxford Sinfonia
Maggie Faultless

...and pianothon, showcasing amateur orchestras across the nation:

Debussy: Arabesque No 1
Anne-Marie O鈥機allahan (piano)

Rachmaninov: Prelude in E flat
Peter Byrne (piano)

2 hours, 15 minutes

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Thu 30 Oct 2008 19:00

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  • Thu 30 Oct 2008 19:00