RCM String Orchestra: Heads or Tails

Name: RCM String Orchestra: Heads or Tails
Start: 2025-10-08 18:00:00
Location: Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Dates
08 October 2025, 6:00pm

Venue
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Tickets
£5

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08 October 2025, 6:00pm

Venue
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Tickets
£5

Jonathan Morton director
RCM String Orchestra

Górecki Three Pieces In Old Style
Erkki-Sven Tüür Action from Action-Passion-Illusion
Walker Lyric for Strings
Dani Howard Heads or Tails
Shostakovich (arr Barshai) Chamber Symphony for String Orchestra op 110a

The Royal College of Music is pleased to welcome back Jonathan Morton for a concert culminating in Shostakovich’s gripping Chamber Symphony.

This work is an arrangement of the composer's Eighth String Quartet, a work both powerful and poignant, with deeply moving melodies. Also on the bill are Górecki’s trio of pieces based on old Polish music, Walker’s popular Lyric for Strings dating from his early days as a composer, and RCM alumna Dani Howard’s hypnotic Heads or Tails.

Plus, be swept up in the intricate rhythmic layers of the first movement of Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Action-Passion-Illusion.

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