Description
Steven Mackey’s The Ancestors is the first in a series of three works commissioned by the Festival over the next three years, and this work for electric guitar and string quartet was premiered at the Wigmore Hall on 3 January this year. Steven’s new work is complemented by music for wind quintet by Oliver Knussen, and Ravel’s ‘Mother Goose’ suite for piano duo. Rounding off the programme we have Fauré’s second piano quartet, whose slow movement was described by Aaron Copland as “truly classic…intensity on a background of calm”.