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Radio 3,10 Dec 2024,14 mins

SeriesVivaldi in a Warming World

Summer

The Essay

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Kate Molleson unpacks the explosive power of Concerto No. 2 in G minor. Composer Ash Fure shares the process behind The Force of Things – An Opera in Objects, an immersive installation opera that wrestles with the rising tide of eco-grief and ecological collapse – a work that Kate likens to the destructive and dark elements of the Summer movement. Fure explains why she eschews the literal in favour of the abstract. Producer Robbie Armstrong A Whistledown Scotland production

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