Zubin Kanga performs the World Premiere of Laurence Osborn's concerto, Schiller's Piano, with Manchester Collective at the Royal Northern College of Music. The work, a centrepiece of Cyborg Soloists,is a virtuosic combination of the piano alongside a keyboard playing the sounds of piano construction, recorded at the Southbank Centre's piano workshop. Created as a response to thereplica of Schiller’s piano at the Buchenwald memorial – built by prisoners there and unable to play music – Osborn responds to fascism’s empty attempts to recreate the past. The work is part of their Fever Dreams programme, featuring a variety of old and new works.

Fever Dreams

10 October: Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

Grażyna Bacewicz Concerto for String Orchestra
Laurence Osborn Schiller’s Piano (world premiere)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings, I. & III.
Caroline Shaw Evergreen, I & II.
Wojciech Kilar Orawa

Performers: 
Zubin Kanga Piano, keyboard, live electronics (Schiller’s Piano)
Aaron Holloway-Nahum Conductor (Schiller’s Piano)
Rakhi Singh Violin, Director
Manchester Collective

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