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主播大秀 NOW 鈥� NOW!, our series dedicated to the best music being written today, is back this autumn with two UK premieres, plus a symphony by our former Composer-in-Association, Huw Watkins.

First up, the UK premiere of Jessie Montgomery鈥檚 Coincident Dances. Frenetic energy and a multicultural aural palette radiate in this depiction of the sounds of New York. The second UK premiere comes in the form of Elena Kats-Chernin鈥檚 violin concerto Fantasie im Wintergarten, written for tonight鈥檚 soloist, Emily Sun. Inspired by a 1920s silent film set in the fairground circus Wintergarten in Berlin, the concerto explores the contrast of love and betrayal 鈥� from light to shadow, tango to chaos, virtuosity to suspended lyricism. To close we turn to Huw Watkins鈥� Second Symphony, written during the pandemic this large scale work, whilst relatively short, packs a punchy delivery of ravishing texture and expansive melody.