Stravinsky Tango
Bach (Orch. Webern) Ricercar
Schnittke Polyphonic Tango
Safronov Ein Bach-Stück / Stück Bach

Vladimir Jurowski conductor

The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Foyle Future Firsts annual apprenticeship programme helps to bridge the transition period between college and professional performing for 16 outstanding young musicians. Members of the programme participate in Orchestral rehearsals, receive close tuition from Orchestral principals and are given a variety of performance opportunities. Join this year’s Foyle Future Firsts and the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor, Maestro Vladimir Jurowski, for a Bach-suffused programme of twentieth and twenty-first century music.

Webern’s arrangement of Bach’s Ricercar, written in 1935, is a marked departure from his more well known 12-tone writing. The traditional tonal counterpoint is suddenly rendered alien and modern as ‘Bach’s music is reinterpreted in a variety of timbres’. This description is given to us by Alfred Schnittke, whose own Polyphonic Tango again takes Bach’s counterpoint, but blends it with elements of the Tango. The final piece performed tonight is Anton Safronov’s Ein Bach-Stück / Stück-Bach, which takes and re-arranges selected passages from Bach’s Goldberg Variations into a new and inspiring tapestry of sound.

This free concert in the Royal Festival Hall will last approximately 35 minutes.



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