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Maxwell Quartet with Cordelia Williams
A beautiful blend of piano and strings, combining classical and folk traditions.
This special collaboration between the Maxwells and Cordelia Williams integrates music from and inspired by the quartet’s Scottish homeland with iconic classical music works. Alongside traditional folk music is Maxwell Davies’ work, written as a protest against a proposed uranium mine on the remote Orkney Islands where the composer lived, and featuring beautifully simple melodies. Arvo Part’s masterpiece ‘Fratres’ is a series of variations on a similarly simple stepwise theme, creating a meditative effect. With Schumann’s work, dedicated to his wife Clara, the composer effectively ‘invented’ the piano quintet, a combination of instruments never written for before.
Programme:
Schubert Notturno D897 for piano trio – quartet and solo piano
Folk Music of Scotland (interspersed) – quartet and solo piano
Arvo Part ‘Fratres’ arranged for piano quintet
Peter Maxwell Davies ‘Farewell to Stromness’
Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44
This special collaboration between the Maxwells and Cordelia Williams integrates music from and inspired by the quartet’s Scottish homeland with iconic classical music works. Alongside traditional folk music is Maxwell Davies’ work, written as a protest against a proposed uranium mine on the remote Orkney Islands where the composer lived, and featuring beautifully simple melodies. Arvo Part’s masterpiece ‘Fratres’ is a series of variations on a similarly simple stepwise theme, creating a meditative effect. With Schumann’s work, dedicated to his wife Clara, the composer effectively ‘invented’ the piano quintet, a combination of instruments never written for before.
Programme:
Schubert Notturno D897 for piano trio – quartet and solo piano
Folk Music of Scotland (interspersed) – quartet and solo piano
Arvo Part ‘Fratres’ arranged for piano quintet
Peter Maxwell Davies ‘Farewell to Stromness’
Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44
Thursday 15 May
Turner Sims, Building 52, Highfield Campus, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire SO17 1BJ
19:30Tickets:
Band A £27 (£24.30 Friends)
Band B £22 (£19.80 Friends)
Band C £14 (£12.60 Friends)
Students and Under 18s: £10 (Bands B and C)
School groups: £7.50 (Bands B and C)
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