A special performance of this remarkable ensemble’s new album – exploring the depths of human emotion through music of the night.

United Strings of Europe
Beibei Wang crotales
Julian Azkoul director

Jessie Montgomery

Starburst (3')

Daniel Kidane

Be Still (7')

Richard Strauss, arr. Mouret

Metamorphosen (25')

Purcell, arr. Stokowski

Dido's Lament (from Dido and Aeneas) (6')

Schoenberg

Verklärte Nacht (30')

Praised for original programming and expressive playing, the United Strings of Europe present a heartfelt sequence of atmospheric music from the new album Through the Night.

Composers from across the ages explore darkness, hope, and transformation through five moving works. ‘When I am laid in earth’ is the wistful final aria of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, while in Schoenberg’s romantic Transfigured Night, guilt and foreboding give way to a stronger bond of love.

Strauss’ haunting and nostalgic Metamorphosen was written in the final year of World War Two. Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst is a colourful exploration of change and transformation and Daniel Kidane’s Be Still is a search for a way forward emerging from the uncertainty of the past five years.