15th May 2025
19:30 - View all performance times
Turner Sims Southampton , Building 52 University of Southampton Salisbury Road
Box Office: 023 8059 5151
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.
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15 May 2025 - 19:30 | 2 hours | Standard - Min: £14.00 Max: £27.00 | Children - Min: £10.00 | Students - Min: £10.00 | Book Tickets |