Nash Inventions

Nash Ensemble under Lionel Friend, with Claire Booth (soprano). Mark-Anthony Turnage's 'Returning' (for string sextet); Colin Matthews's 'The Island' (for soprano and seven instruments); Alexander Goehr's Clarinet Quintet; Peter Maxwell Davies's 'The Last Island' (for string sextet); Harrison Birtwistle's Fantasia on all the notes, for flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp (world premiere); and Jonathan Harvey's 'Song Offerings' (for soprano and eight instruments). (Note: at 6pm, Anthony Burton talks to composers featuring in the evening concert programme performed by the Nash Ensemble, Claire Booth and Lionel Friend; free.)