World Première: Thomas Larcher's Double Concerto at the BBC Proms

Thomas Larcher
Concerto
for violin, cello and orchestra (2011)
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Vienna Konzerthaus and first performed at the BBC Proms on August 18, 2011.
22’

• 18 Aug 2011 · London (UK)
Royal Albert Hall
BBC Proms 2011
Viktoria Mullova, violin
Matthew Barley, cello
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Ilan Volkov

An enormous round space, an empty dark space ... a moment in which the flow of time has been halted … noises emerge from the silence: a crackling and flickering which could form the preliminary stage of a sound ... a high continuous tone. Suddenly the silence has transformed itself into a continuous, allembracing tonal space ... the space contracts around me and begins to exert pressure on my lungs; the air is squeezed out, waves of unconsciousness seep through my head and the space transforms itself into a single, incomprehensively large wave ... I am merely an infinitesimal particle within the body of this wave ... someone opens a door, the room is large and dark; everything is quiet ... the room opens out. I stand in this room and walk through it without however moving from my position ... until, having been transformed into a point which is constantly moving further away, I disappear.
- Thomas Larcher

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