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Schoenberg's imaginative and colourful orchestration of Brahms' First Piano Quartet is conducted by Ilan Volkov in this concert broadcast live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Schoenberg had a great love for the music of Brahms and took on the challenge of transcribing the G Minor Piano Quartet for orchestra to revive what was, he thought, an under-performed chamber work in the early 20th Century.

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is joined by American cellist Alisa Weilerstein for Shostakovich's haunting Second Cello Concerto, full of the anguish and existential despair which characterise the composer's later works.

Multi-award winning British composer Simon Holt's new work, Surcos, is a CBSO co-commission and this concert marks its UK premiere. The title translates as 'furrows' and it was inspired by the poem Noviembre 1913 Antonio Machado (1875-1939), describing seeds cast into the soil before winter asserts its grip.

Tom Redmond presents this live broadcast.

Simon Holt: Surcos (CBSO co-commission, UK premiere)
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2
(Alisa Weilerstein - Cello)

INTERVAL

Brahms (orch. Schoenberg): Piano Quartet in G minor

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov - Conductor.