Outsiders

A quartet of composers who never fitted into polite society. Satie and his music took a sideways look at Belle Epoque Paris, while Rued Langgaard stuck to his Romantic voice in a Danish world of music dominated by Carl Nielsen. Growing up as a labourer’s son on a small island, Nielsen himself never fitted other people’s ideas of a sophisticated artist, while Beethoven tugged at the strings of patronage which dictated the terms of a composer as servant to his masters. Compromise was an alien word to all four composers, and their music is proud to be different.

Programme

Satie: Preludes Nos.1 & 2

Langgaard: Som en tyv en natten

Nielsen: Wind Quintet

Interval

Beethoven: Quintet for Piano and Winds