TRANSFORMATIONS: Solo Violin
Port of Menteith Parish Church, Stirling, FK8 3RA
Saturday 18th July 2026
A period-instrument exploration of musical interrelations from the 17th to 21st centuries. American violinist Benjamin Shute performs an intoxicating mix of music for solo violin by Bach, Biber, Brahms and Paganini, as well as his own compositions, in the scenic setting of Port of Menteith's lovely early Gothic church on the shore of the Lake of Menteith.
Programme:
Sonata in G minor, BMV 1001 ... Johann Sebastian Bach
Adagio - Fuga - Siciliana - Presto
Tunes & Dances by Oswald, Sancho, McKercher ('the Dunkeld Paganini')
Capriccio in A minor, Op. 1 No. 24 ... Niccolò Paganini
INTERMISSION
Lullabye
Grande Danse (allemande courante à la Sarabande en gigue) ... Benjamin Shute
Passacaglia in G minor ('Guardian Angel') ... Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Romanze in F major, Op. 118 No. 5 ... Johannes Brahms, trans, Benjamin Shute
Adoramus ... Benjamin Shute
Programme:
Sonata in G minor, BMV 1001 ... Johann Sebastian Bach
Adagio - Fuga - Siciliana - Presto
Tunes & Dances by Oswald, Sancho, McKercher ('the Dunkeld Paganini')
Capriccio in A minor, Op. 1 No. 24 ... Niccolò Paganini
INTERMISSION
Lullabye
Grande Danse (allemande courante à la Sarabande en gigue) ... Benjamin Shute
Passacaglia in G minor ('Guardian Angel') ... Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Romanze in F major, Op. 118 No. 5 ... Johannes Brahms, trans, Benjamin Shute
Adoramus ... Benjamin Shute
