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Martin Handley presents a concert given at London's Wigmore Hall by the Emerson Quartet with cellist Ralph Kirshbaum, featuring chamber works both written at the end of their composers' lives. Shostakovich's final string quartet was written in 1974 and is a meditation on his own mortality, complete with funeral march. Schubert's Quintet in C was written two months before his untimely death at the age of 31, and is unusual in using two cellos instead of two violas.

Emerson Quartet
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello)

Shostakovich: String Quartet No 15
Schubert: String Quintet in C, D956

Plus Composing Today: nominations from the 2008 British Composer Awards in the liturgical and choral catagories:

Judith Bingham - Missa Brevis 鈥淎wake My Soul鈥�; Kyrie and Agnus Dei
with accompanying anthem 鈥淭he Shepherd鈥�
Bromley Parish Church Choir
Thomas Corns, conductor

James MacMillan - Mitte manum tuam from 鈥淭he Strathclyde Motets鈥�
(written for St Columba鈥檚, Maryhill, Glasgow)

Howard Skempton - Locus Iste and Beati quorum via from Three Motets
Exon Singers
Matthew Owens, conductor

Colin Matthews - Alphabicycle Order
Halle
Halle Youth Choir

Michael Zev Gordon - This Night
Includes Jewish chant
King鈥檚 College Choir

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