Performances of Variations for Orchestra

Variations

Plus-Minus Ensemble

20:30, Tuesday 18 February 2025
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus (external link) presents three works that each do arranging in a different way. Like the many chamber versions of orchestral works made for Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna from 1918, we include Mark Knoop’s intimate arrangement of Laurence Crane’s orchestral piece Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section.

At the heart of Traveller Song is a transcription of a recording of a Sicilian cart driver (carrettiere) that appears on the album “Folklore Musicale Italiano, Volume 2”, transformed by Cassandra Miller (external link) into a quasi-shamanistic ritual.

The show concludes with the premiere of American composer Aaron Wyanski’s arrangement of Arnold Schoenberg’s Variations for Orchestra, the latest instalment in his Schoenberg in Hi-Fi series.

Laurence Crane	Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section	201617
Cassandra Miller	Traveller Song	2017-1821
Schoenberg, arr. Aaron Wyanski	Variations for Orchestra	1926-28, 2024‡20

mirror-shift

Plus-Minus Ensemble

19:00, Friday 21 February 2025
West Court
Edinburgh College of Art, Main Building
Laurinson Place EH3 9DF Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Martin Parker	mirror-shift	2025*20
Laurence Crane	Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section	201617
Schoenberg, arr. Aaron Wyanski	Variations for Orchestra	1926-28, 202420