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Maxwell Quartet with Cordelia Williams

Part of the Turner Sims Spring Season 2025

Add to my Calendar 15-05-2025 19:30 15-05-2025 21:30 36 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. Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Turner Sims Concert Hall
University Southampton
Salisbury Road
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
England

Programme

Franz Schubert – Notturno in E flat, D.897
Robert Schumann – Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op.44
Peter Maxwell Davies – Farewell to Stromness
Arvo Pärt – Fratres (arr. piano quintet)

Performers

Cordelia Williams – piano

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Programme Note

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.

Maxwell Quartet with Cordelia Williams

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