John White
Chord-Breaking Machine 10'
Gerald Barry
No other people. 12'
UK premiere
Frederic Rzewski
Piano Concerto c20'
BBC commission: world premiere
Feldman
Coptic Light 28'
Frederic Rzewski piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
There will be no interval
Inspired by ancient textiles seen in the Louvre Museum, Morton Feldman's Coptic Light glows heavily in the air, stopping time.
Ilan Volkov directs the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in this late masterpiece from the American modernist and the world premiere of Frederic Rzewski's Piano Concerto, with the composer as soloist.
English experimentalist John White's Chord-Breaking Machine opens a Late Night Prom of unusual
orchestral textures in which the Irish composer Gerald Barry's 2008 work No other people. receives
its UK premiere.