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On Wednesday October 21st at St John’s Smith Square at 1.00pm\u00a0Mark Bebbington with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jan Latham- Koenig will give the world premiere of a new work of mine:<\/strong><\/p>\n I completed this work in May of this year.\u00a0 It is\u00a0based on Paganini’s 24th Caprice and\u00a0is a substantial piece (about 26-28 minutes) in one movement; It is largely intended as a divertimento-like work\u00a0in four continuous\u00a0sections. The piano writing is quite brilliant and virtuosic at times as well as containing light and popular elements alongside more serious an \u00a0contemplative sections.<\/p>\n The Concertante is to be recorded very soon by these forces for the SOMM label, and although the Government’s distancing regulations require the string strength to be reduced, I am convinced that the\u00a0fine acoustics of St Johns, plus the excellence of the RPO players will do the work justice. Mark Bebbington is of course a superb pianist; he commissioned\u00a0the Concertante\u00a0which is dedicated to him. I am flattered that the\u00a0admirable musician Jan Latham-Koenig will be conducting.<\/p>\n The\u00a0programme\u00a0is the British part of a French-UK pair of concerts – the first all-French is this coming Friday, October 2, mainly Poulenc, including the Aubade with the RPO\u00a0\u00a0under Jan Latham-Koenig. The programme on the 21st also contains\u00a0 Finzi’s profound Eclogue for piano and string orchestra and Doreen Carwithen’s admirable 1948 Concerto for the same forces of course. My new work comes in the middle.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Wednesday October 21st at St John’s Smith Square at 1.00pm\u00a0Mark Bebbington with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jan Latham- Koenig will give the world premiere of a new work of mine: I completed this work in May … Continue reading