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In 1915 Rudi Stephan鈥檚 promising career was cut brutally short when a sniper shot and killed the 28-year-old German composer on the Eastern Front. A rarity well worth reviving in a second concert reflecting on the Armistice, Stephan鈥檚 Music for Orchestra (1912) opens a concert that also features Herbert Howells鈥檚 moving tribute to Francis Purcell Warren, a fellow composer who died on the battlefields a year later, and Shostakovich鈥檚 Ninth Symphony, a profoundly brave riposte to Stalin, written as the Second World War drew to a close.

Lawrence Power takes the spotlight in Walton鈥檚 haunting Viola Concerto.