Live choice
Sep 30, 2021
4 minutes
Samuele Telari
St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 2 November
Web: stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk
The young Italian accordionist isn’t one to duck a challenge. A wide-ranging discography ranges over contemporary music as well as his own appropriation of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. On the lunchtime menu is another keyboard Leviathan: Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, plus seven of Ligeti’s Musica ricercata.
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Holy Trinity Church, St Andrews, 3 November
Web: sco.org.uk
Described by Shostakovich as ‘an impassioned protest against death’, his Symphony No. 14 sets poetry by Lorca, Rilke, Küchelbecker and Apollinaire. Alongside Mozart’s Posthorn Symphony, its call to life is repeated in further concerts in Edinburgh
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