St Magnus Festival St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall United Kingdom
Hebrides Ensemble
The Hebrides Ensemble celebrates its 25th anniversary with a programme that reflects a concert in the first St Magnus Festival given by the Fires of London 40 years ago. This is also a tribute concert to a significant founder of the Festival Peter Maxwell Davies (Max) bringing together his clever re-workings of Renassiance music with his beautiful Piano Trio based around a trip to Fair Isle which sits a little further north between Orkney and Shetland. Thomas Adès’s music comes from his large-scale opera of The Tempest and pays tribute to Shakespeare’s anniversary whilst Messiaen’s early work was a celebratory piece written for his first wife. Adding to our 40 Festival premières is a new work from John Gourlay, an alumnus of the St Magnus Composers’ Course.
