Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective III by Stamitz, A., LeFanu, Poulenc, Korngold, Alates (2023/2023), Dirleton Kirk, Dirleton, United Kingdom

Kaleidoscope end their three concert visit to East Lothian with a thrilling programme that sums up their questing attitude to the repertoire, always seeking out neglected marvels as well as offering a platform to living composers. Korngold’s frankly astonishing suite is one of the former – an epic work for an unusual instrumental line-up composed in 1930 for that tireless commissioner of music for piano left hand, Paul Wittgenstein. Alongside it is a new work by 75-year-old English composer Nicola LeFanu. ‘After Farrera’ is named for her composing retreat, a village high in the Catalan Pyrenees, which she says is a wonderful location for quiet and solitude.