Mahler, Debussy and Kendall

Hannah Kendall’s ‘The Spark Catchers’ pays tribute to the women and girls employed at a match factory in London’s East End, who went on strike in 1888 protesting their hazardous working conditions. It is inspired by a poem by Lemn Sissay, commissioned for the London 2012 Olympics. A selection of Debussy’s piano Préludes, reimagined for orchestra by Colin Matthews, evokes the Alhambra’s imposing Wine Gate, a mischievous water nymph, a portrait of...