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Your concert on 11 February marks the centenary of Xenakis’s birth. How have you chosen which works to play?

 I had a look at what was already in our repertoire by him, and what was in there was determined]. Having said that, there is also a thread running through the programme, based on distinctive timbres, that includes the works by the other composers included in it.

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