The main work on this program is Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling’s (1904-85) large string quartet in F minor in a version for string orchestra with an added part for double bass. The symphonic and dramatic dimension of this work is in the German tradition of counterpoint emerging from Bach via late Beethoven, Bruckner and Schwarz-Schilling’s mentor Heinrich Kaminski. Further arrangements of string quartet movements by Mozart and Beethoven, Arvo Pärt’s ‘Orient & Occident’, and two world premiere recordings of contemporary works by Peter Michael Hamel and Anders Eliasson follow.