DISTINCTIVE VOICES

Beethoven’s Scottish Songs are ingenious arrangements, strikingly beautiful, straddling a rustic tone and Classical aesthetic. In Thunder, Eötvös somehow manages to create soaring vocal lines using just a single timpani. Lera Auerbach’s Trio is skillfully crafted and powerfully affecting, evoking both Bach and Shostakovich with its colouristic effects. To bring the season to a festive close, Dvořák’s romantic Quintet radiates grace and warmth, dramatically alternating moods (a trait Dvořák absorbed from Czech folk music) before blossoming into a final burst of spontaneous celebration.

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Ludwig Van Beethoven Scottish Songs 

Peter Eötvös Thunder for Timpani 

Lera Auerbach Trio No. 1

Antonin Dvorak Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major Op. 81, B. 155