Alison Balsom meets Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Lerici Music Festival: two world premieres inspired by Shelley

Stephen Pritchard, 26th July

This is the bicentenary of the Shelley's death, drowned in a storm off the coast here in July 1822 and so, naturally, the Lerici Music Festival has taken the poet as its theme this year.

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Carrara, Cristian	Music, when soft voices die (World premiere)
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)	Trumpet concerto in E major (or E flat major)
Winkler, David (b. 1948)	Concerto no. 2 for piano and orchestra “Percy Bysshe Shelley” (World premiere)

Alison Balsom	Trumpet
Constanza Principe	Piano
Orchestra dell'Emilia Romagna Arturo Toscanini
Gianluca Marcianò	Conductor