Start Time: 7.30pm
RICHARD REED PARRY
Quartet for Heart and Breath (6’)
KATE WHITLEY
Six Charlotte Mew Settings (16’)
JOHN TAVENER
The World (10’)
MEREDITH MONK
String Songs (20’)
CASSANDRA MILLER
Thanksong (12’)
Music by Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry opens this concert of sumptuous, 21st century compositions for string quartet, performed by Phaedra Ensemble with Lotte Betts-Dean, a vocalist praised by The Guardian for her “unmissable, urgent musicality”. Following its collaboration with American composer Meredith Monk, performer and Godmother of the New York experimental music scene, Phaedra Ensemble performs the composer’s only string quartet, String Songs. Mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean then joins the quartet to present works by Kate Whitley and John Tavener, as well as Cassandra Miller’s modern masterpiece Thanksong, a tender reflection on Beethoven’s late Quartet in A minor (Op.132).
Series Discount: 20% discount if you book all 5 Chamber Music concerts.
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