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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Notes from Scotland: Daniel Pioro and Simon Smith

Notes from Scotland: Daniel Pioro and Simon Smith

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Notes from Scotland: Daniel Pioro and Simon Smith

From the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, a recital from darkness into light.

From the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, a recital from darkness into light by violinist Daniel Pioro and pianist Simon Smith.

Cassandra Miller’s work for solo violin opens this recital, with a play on translations; we hear a violin rendition of an American folk song, originally performed by Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain and transcribed by computer.  Next follows a sequence of movements from Bach’s Sonata no. 3 in E, interspersed with Nico Muhly’s Drones and Violin, before Linda Catlin Smith’s darker work exploring ‘two entities traveling the same path’.  Daniel Pioro and Simon Smith bring us back into the light with their last piece, Vaughan Williams’s work inspired by a poem, describing the heavenly song of a Lark. 
Recorded at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in March 2021.

Cassandra Miller: For Mira (solo violin)  					
Bach: Sonata no.3 in E, BWV 1016 - first movement 
Nico Muhly: Drones and Violin – first movement
Bach: Sonata no.3 in E, BWV 1016 - third movement 
Nico Muhly: Drones and Violin - second movement
Linda Catlin Smith: With Their Shadows Long 				
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending 					


Daniel Pioro, violin
Simon Smith, piano



Presenter: Kate Molleson
Producer: Laura Metcalfe

Photo credit: David James Grinly

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