Another Music Festival

Another Music Festival brings together an extraordinary ensemble of international artists – many of them migrants – to celebrate the rich legacy of composers who have lived or continue to live in exile.

From historical giants – Chopin, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Enescu, Bartók to neglected composers such as the Ukrainian composer Theodore Akimenko, the three-day festival offers a journey through music shaped by migration.

Importantly, the programme features works composed both before and after emigration, highlighting the continuity and evolution of the composer’s artistic voice.

Highlights will include premieres of Alexey Kurbatov’s Quartet, Boris Filanovsky’s Supremus 3 and two UK premieres: Stephania Turkevych’s Sonata for Violin and Piano and Leonid Desyatnikov’s Leaden Echo.

The programme for the three concert evenings runs as follows:

Sunday 18 January 
Paul Hindemith — Sonata in D major, Op. 11 No. 2 (1918)
Tania León — Homenatge (2011) 
Frédéric Chopin — Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65 (1846)
Sergei Rachmaninov — Preludes – Op. 23 No. 2 (1901) – Op. 3 No. 2 (1892)
Stefania Turkewich — Sonata for Violin and Piano (1935, UK Premiere)
Alexey Kurbatov — Piano Quartet (World Premiere)

Wednesday 21 January
Igor Stravinsky — L’Histoire du soldat (Soldier’s Tale), Trio (1918)
Peter Philips — Pavana Pagget (Pavana Dolorosa) (1593)
Elena Langer — Landscape with Three People (2015, London Premiere)
Béla Bartók — Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71 (1914/1918)
Andrzej Panufnik — Song to the Virgin Mary, for string sextet (1964)
Leonid Desyatnikov — The Leaden Echo (1994, UK Premiere)
Valentin Silvestrov — Postludium No. 1 DSCH (1981)

Friday 23 January 
Bechara El-Khoury — Sextett for Six Violins, Op. 218 (2009)
Franz Waxman — Four Scenes of Childhood (1925)
George Enescu — Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 29 (1940)
Theodore Akimenko — Chant d’Automne, Op. 16 No. 1 (1897), Fantasy, Op. 26bis (1903)
Frederick Delius — Cello Sonata (1916)
Boris Filanovsky — Supremus 3, for two violins (World Premiere)
Alexander Zemlinsky — Clarinet Trio in D minor, Op. 3 (1896)
Osvaldo Golijov — Last Round (1996)