Lunchtime Concert Series
Berkeley Ensemble
Southbank Sinfonia
Laura Snowden
Guitar
Malcolm Arnold
Guitar Concerto
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Wind Quintet
Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. String Quartet)

Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition may have inspired more arrangements than any other piece in the classical canon, but this performance eschews the most famous by Ravel for a more intimate version for String Quartet. Mussorgsky’s aren’t the only images in this programme – Crawford-Seeger’s Wind Quintet paints a compelling image of the ailing composer returning to the thing she most loves, while Arnold’s Guitar Concerto is a tacit portrait of the great jazz guitarists – Django Reinhardt’s influence on the piece is unmistakable.