Performance on 3 - 20/11/2007

Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert recorded at the Glasgow City Halls. The Tirol Tourist Board commissioned the fashionable Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tuur's Oxymoron, where the majesty of the Tirolean mountain landscape is to be heard. An imaginary Chaplin film was the inspiration for Milhaud's Le boeuf sur le toit, while Copland's Music for the Theatre is, misleadingly, a work commissioned for the concert hall. Bassist John Patitucci has inspired Mark-Anthony Turnage in the past, and this concertante work for double bass, A Prayer out of Stillness, is the latest fruit of their collaboration. Copland: Music for the Theatre Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toit Turnage: A Prayer out of Stillness (UK premiere) Tuur: Oxymoron (Music for Tirol) John Patitucci (double bass/six string guitar) Scottish Chamber Orchestra Olari Etts (conductor).