The programme featured Sophie-Anne Mutter playing the Dvorak violin concerto, preceded by the New World. Also in the programme were two works by a Polish composer who was new to me and I was very glad of the introduction. The first work, Sinfonia Sacra, is dramatic in its use of trumpets spaced around the stage. The second, Lullaby, was - according to the prgramme - written in London in 1947, repressed under Stalinism in Poland and went on to influence Penderecki.
The evening was dedicated to the memory of Colin Davis, for whom Anne-Sophie Mutter led a short silence and made a brief speech.
The programme was re-ordered to await the arrival of S-AM who was stuck in traffic created by a tube strike. Attendance also seemed to suffer at what was claimed to be a sell-out a few days before.
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