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The Expanded Violin/Anselm McDonnell

LSO Jerwood Composer+ Showcase

,LSO St Luke's
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A deep dive into the potential of the violin, expanding and enhancing the instrument through microtonality, electronics, and the sound of multiple violins.

Rusted Sugar enters the world of intervals smaller than a semitone, taking traditional tonal chord progressions and setting them into a landscape of quartertones, sweet synthesisers and funk rhythms. Swept Through the Floods and Lamento present powerful emotional journeys. Leo Chadburn’s De La Salle (Violins) occupies a calmer environment: a drifting soundscape, merging four violins into one voice.

Ian Wilson’s Primavera takes creates a texture of agile echoes in a violin quartet and Saariaho’s Nocturne is an intimate tribute to Lutosławski. McDonnell’s new work Genesis Cradle closes the concert, exploring alternative tunings through Just Intonation - intervals that are tuned to fit with the naturally occurring relationships in the harmonic series.

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Produced by the London Symphony Orchestra. LSO Jerwood Composer+ is generously supported by Jerwood Foundation. The Expanded Violin is generously supported by Marchus Trust, the Hinrichsen Foundation and the Vaughan Williams Foundation.

Programme

  • Anselm McDonnell   Rusted Sugar
  • Judith Ring   Swept Through the Floods
  • Kalevi Aho   Lamento
  • Leo Chadburn   De La Salle (Violins)
  • Ian Wilson   Primavera from ‘Quattro Stagioni’
  • Catherine Lamb   in (tone)
  • Chiyoko Szlavnics   Quick Figure (for Marc Sabat)
  • Chiyoko Szlavnics   This is Only Here. This is Only Now.
  • Kaija Saariaho   Nocturne
  • Anselm McDonnell   Genesis Cradle (world premiere)

Performers

  • Mira Benjamin   violin
  • Larissa O’Grady   violin
  • Chihiro Ono   violin
  • Amalia Young   violin

LSO St Luke's

Location
161 Old St
London
EC1V 9NG

Nearby public transport
The closest London Underground station is Old Street.The nearest National Rail station is Old Street (for Great Northern services), with Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Blackfriars and City Thameslink all within walking distance. Bus services running to LSO St Luke's are 55, 243 (stop nearest to LSO St Luke's), 43, 76, 141, 205, 214, 271. 

Car and bicycle parking
The nearest paid car parking is at the Barbican. There are occasionally disabled parking spaces available at the venue, but these must be booked in advance by calling LSO St Luke's on 020 7490 3939. The nearest TfL Bicycle Hire docking station is at Old Street tube station.