Nederlands Strijkersgilde - A second home

In 'Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge', Benjamin Britten uses music to describe the character of his teacher with whom he found a second home. For William Alwyn, the heavenly harp sounds of 'Lyra Angelica' that flowed from his pen offered a refuge in a musical landscape of atonal music. While Erwin Schulhoff, who composed 'Fünf Stücke für Streichquartett', hoped to find a second home geographically, Rick van Veldhuizen was inspired by finding a second home with someone else in his piece 'mais le corps taché d'ombres'. The Dutch String Orchestra (Nederlands Strijkersgilde) performs this music under the direction of Swiss conductor Konradin Herzog.