Immerse yourself in the wonder of the present moment with music that offers a fresh understanding of time.

Joan Tower’s A New Day is dedicated to Jeff, her partner of 48 years. Alban Gerhardt’s cello sings poignantly of happy days spent together as time becomes even more precious. It’s a ferociously exacting score, but Gerhardt, as ever, is up to the challenge.  

Time slows and expands when we connect with nature, and when listening to Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus we breathe in a serene world of sound. Flutes interwind with birdsong; trombones become cranes and swans. 

The opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony has outslipped the march of years: over two centuries after it was first written, pretty much anyone you ask still knows that tune.

 

 

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