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Edinburgh International Festival: Queen's Hall Series: Colin Currie and Friends

Colin Currie and Friends

Queen's Hall Series

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Minimalism, Bartok and Rolf Wallin performed at the Edinburgh International Festival 2015.

Colin Currie and friends in recital from the Queen’s Hall, including a work by Steve Reich dedicated to Scottish-born Colin Currie. From the Edinburgh International Festival 2015.

Every weekday for three weeks, Radio 3 broadcasts one of the stand-out concerts from the Queen’s Hall recital series over the past decade. Today Donald Macleod introduces Colin Currie and friends in an exhilarating recital from 2015 including Steve Reich’s Quartet for two vibraphones and two pianos, dedicated to Scottish-born Colin Currie.  The recital also includes Adams's work for two pianos, Hallelujah Junction, and a musical response to poetry by Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin. The concert concludes with Bartok's masterpiece for two pianos and percussion.

John Adams: Hallelujah Junction
Steve Reich: Quartet for 2 Vibraphones and 2 Pianos

INTERVAL: Donald Macleod introduces the flamboyant pianist Lang Lang in a recording of Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor Op. 36

Rolf Wallin: Realismos mágicos
Bartok: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion


Colin Currie - percussion
Sam Walton - percussion
Philip Moore - piano
Simon Crawford Philips – piano


Photograph - Linda Nylind

Edinburgh International Festival: Queen's Hall Series

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Stand-out concerts from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh over the past decade.

Broadcasts of some of the stand-out concerts from the Queen's Hall series over the past decade at the Edinburgh International Festival.

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