Delius & Dixon with The Villers Quartet

The Villiers Quartet is one of the most recognised quartets in the UK for the performance of British music, releasing acclaimed recordings of works by Elgar, Delius, Fricker, Alwyn, William Sterndale Bennett, David Matthews and Kuljit Bhamra. In 2020 the quartet gave the first performance of the 1888 Delius String Quartet, featuring movements from original versions uncovered by Professor Daniel Grimley from Oxford University.
This programme also features rediscovered works by the British composer Ailsa Dixon (1932-2017) . Dixon's music frequently expresses a sense of the mysterious, but also features a sense of humour. Her strongest influences have come from the works of Faur (for their harmonic suppleness), Britten (for his powers of evocation and empathy), and Bartok (whose compositional processes she studied in Durham, stimulating a special interest in lively variations of time signature and the elasticity of musical motifs).PLEASE NOTE START TIME: 7pmProgramme
Dixon - Lost Scherzo
Dixon - Sohrab & Rustum
Delius - 1888 Quartet
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Britten/Purcell - Chacony
Alwyn - Quartet No. 9
Dixon - Nocturnal Scherzo
Dixon - Spirit of Love (with Lucy Cox, soprano)