13 March, Saffron Hall: Nature & Rapture

Name: 13 March, Saffron Hall: Nature & Rapture
Start: 2026-03-13T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Saffron Hall

Schedule

Fri, 13 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Saffron Hall | Saffron Walden, EN

Three pieces focused on nature and conservation: Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony, Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus and Gregor Mayrhofer’s Recycling Concerto.
Beethoven’s symphony features birdsong melodies he transcribed, while the great 20th-century Finnish composer Rautavaara’s work is a “Concerto for Birds and Orchestra”, with the recorded sounds of curlews, shore larks, whooper swans and others the soloists running throughout.
Mayrhofer’s Recycling Concerto was written for the virtuosic percussionist Vivi Vassileva. Together they have collected and tuned an enormous battery of percussion from repurposed rubbish, which Vassileva makes full use of over the course of this powerful and thought-provoking work.
Programme:
Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus
Beethoven: Symphony No 6, "Pastoral"
Gregor A Mayrhofer: Recycling Concerto

Where is it happening?

Saffron Hall, Saffron Hall, Audley End Road,Saffron Walden, United Kingdom

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Music in Saffron Walden