Manchester Camerata & Tamsin Waley-Cohen

***The Angel in the Marble***

**Mozart** Symphony No. 1 in E flat, K. 16

**Britten** *Simple Symphony*, Op. 4

**Priaulx Rainier** *Movements*

**Nick Martin** Violin Concerto (world premiere)

**Tamsin Waley-Cohen** violin

**Caroline Pether** director

***Manchester Camerata and violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen join forces to perform the London Premiere of Nick Martin’s Violin Concerto, which serves as a love letter to British Artist and Sculptor Dame Barbara Hepworth. This hour-long performance presents the new work alongside music of Mozart, Britten and Priaulx Rainier, celebrating themes of youth and connection to Hepworth herself.***

For this newly Camerata-commissioned violin concerto, Nick Martin has composed a love letter to the work of sculptor Dame Barbara Hepworth. Composed whilst staying in St Ives, Nick says ‘A particular point of inspiration has been Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Landscape Sculpture’—a carved torso-sized, cradle-like form in elm with nine strings of fishing line. I found the number nine resonant, suggestive of the nine months of pregnancy’.

***This event will last approximately 75 minutes, with no interval.***

**Reviews**

**★★★★★ ‘…**unstoppable energy that really sets the music alight**’ *The Telegraph***

Presented by Kings Place.

This is a 14+ event