Pixels Ensemble: Flight

Tonight’s programme traverses a huge range of styles and expression, from Leonarda’s baroque sonata through to the playfulness of Stravinsky and Milhaud. The ensemble has linked the theme of flight with that of exile. All the composers in the programme have experienced a form of exile: Ukrainian composer Silvestrov and Jewish composer Milhaud were exiled by war, Russian composers Auerbach and Stravinsky sought artistic freedom, while Ustvolskaya...