Lawrence Power & Simon Crawford-Phillips
Viola & Piano
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Lawrence Power is one of the most prestigious violists performing today and has been shortlisted for the 2015 Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award. Simon Crawford-Phillips is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and holds teaching positions at the Royal Academy and the Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama.
YORK BOWEN (1884-1961)
Phantasy for Viola and Piano (1918)
HENRI BÜSSER (1872-1973)
Appassionato (1910)
MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937)
Kaddish. Lent in C minor (1914)
GEORGES HÜE (1858-1948)
Thème Varié pour alto et piano (1907)
REYNALDO HAHN (1874-1947)
Soliloque et Forlane (1939)
INTERMISSION
MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE (b. 1960)
PowerPlay (2015)
DMITRI KABALEVSKY (1904-1987)
Improvisation, Op. 21 (1934)
MODEST MUSSORGSKY (1839-1881)
Une Larme (1880)
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)
Barrel Organ Waltz, from The Gadfly Suite (1955)
MODEST MUSSORGSKY (1839-1881)
Hopak, from Sorochinsky Fair (1874-1880, published 1916)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
Mazeppa, Maria’s Lullaby (1881-1883)
SERGEY PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)
The Young Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75 (1937)
ALEKSANDR GLAZUNOV (1865-1936)
Élégie pour alto et piano, Op. 44 in G minor (1893)
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)
Folk Feast, from The Gadfly Suite (1955)
About the Artists
Lawrence Power is one of the foremost violists today and has been on the shortlist for the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award.
He is regularly invited to perform with some of the world’s greatest orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Stockholm Philharmonic, and Bergen Philharmonic. Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia and the BBC Scottish Symphony and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras. He has performed Penderecki’s Viola Concerto in a series of concerts with Camerata Salzburg conducted by the composer. He has also made critically-acclaimed orchestral debuts in Australia.
Lawrence Power is International Professor of Viola at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. He is also founder and Artistic Director of the West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival.
Simon Crawford-Phillips graduated with first class honors from the Royal Academy of Music and in 2000 completed a Master’s Degree and a Fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Much in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist Simon can be heard regularly on BBC Radio 3.
Crawford-Phillips frequently works with singers including Alice Coote, Emma Bell, Sarah Fox, Andrew Kennedy, James Gilchrist and James Rutherford, and instrumentalists Emily Beynon, Colin Currie, Janine Jansen, Pekka Kuusisto, Sergei Krylov, Lawrence Power, Christian Poltera, Natalie Clein, Truls Mork, Martin Frost and Ronald van Spaendonck. He also appears regularly as a guest with the Nash Ensemble, the ECO chamber ensemble, Leopold String Trio, and Yggdrasil String Quartet. As a soloist, Crawford-Phillips has recently performed a series of Beethoven ‘Concertos’ with ViVA, the Orchestra of the East Midlands and appeared at Wigmore Hall, the City of London and Chester Festivals. A founding member of the Kungsbacka Piano Trio, selected by the Young Concert Artists Trust in 1999, Crawford-Phillips joined the BBC New Generation Artists scheme in 2000.
Watch & Listen
Lawrence Power performs Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Maxim Vengerov and the UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra.
Simon Crawford-Phillips and Philip Moore talk about four-hands piano repertoire and about a piano version of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring on two pianos.