David Fennessy ‘The Blue Eyed Lassie’ from Piano Trio No. 2 – In Memoriam Spencer Boney
Christian Mason Efflorescence
Barbara Monk Feldman Clear Edge
Martin Arnold Lutra
Interval
Britta Byström Baum in der Stadt
Ryoko Akama 10 days’ etude
Stuart MacRae Haroldswick
Rufus Isabel Elliot A way out (world premiere)
Composer Rufus Isabel Elliot and artists Miek Zwamborn and Rutger Emmelkamp bring the Isle of Mull’s wild Atlantic rainforest of Tireragan to LSO St Luke’s.
Archival tape hiss becomes harmonic material in David Fennessy’s transcription of The Blue Eyed Lassie. We hear the unfurling of flowers in Mason’s Efflorescence, and we meet the otter who crosses our path in Arnold’s Lutra. Monk Feldman and Akama present chordal piano sequences, exploring open and closed spaces.
Elliot’s A way out for piano trio closes the concert, imagining the wavering songs that belong intrinsically to a bivvy place amongst the cliffs of Tireragan – songs that transform a place in the wild into a sleeping place. Featuring visuals by KNOCKvologan Studies, it hopes to bring that place alive in the hall of LSO St Luke’s.
David Alberman violin
Louise McMonagle cello
Mark Knoop piano
Joyce Lam 