6th September Kings Place 5pm:

Earth & Stars: notes inégales Earth and Stars (UK Premiere) – Peter Wiegold The piece was inspired by a poem written by Mozart ‘Here rests a dear fool’, and was commissioned by ensemble xxj Vienna, for Mozart’s 250th anniversary. The piece is for a requiem for Mozart, and for the ‘fin-de-siècle’ of Vienna. It is performed by an unusual ensemble: piccolo, cor anglais, contra bassoon, viola, double bass, piano, percussion and 4 harmonicas. Dark, earthy and a little incomplete, like some archaic funeral band that has been dug up from the soil, and no one can quite remember how to play the instruments and the music.