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Tung Auditorium: Liverpool

21 Oct 2022 | 7:30 pm

Solem Quartet and Ayanna WJ (Voice and cello)

Beethoven Bartók Now: Experiments
…and Stories

Bela Bartók: Duos (selection) for 2 violins
Bela Bartók: Quartet no. 3, BB 93

Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in B flat major, op. 133, Grosse Fugue
Ayanna Witter-Johnson: Island Suite

The celebrated songwriter, composer, pianist and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson joins the acclaimed Solem Quartet for this thought provoking, high-energy, and cathartic presentation of music and readings, all of which combine to inform the present.

Laced together via the words of the archetypal experimenters, Bartók and Beethoven, in which they describe the thinking behind their respective ground breaking masterpieces, the Solem Quartet perform Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue and Bartók’s Third Quartet before being joined by Ayanna Witter-Johnson to perform her specially composed ‘Island Suite’.

In the Grosse Fugue, Beethoven pushed boundaries creating ‘music that will be contemporary forever’ according to Stravinsky, while Bartók’s Third Quartet sees the composer finding his true voice, channelling the Eastern-European folk music he so loved. Ayanna’s piece is a musical and narrative journey which takes inspiration from Jamaican folk song to create a work that defies genre, and tells the story of Ayanna Witter-Johnson’s ancestry.

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21 Oct 2022
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7:30 pm
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Solem Quartet and Ayanna WJ (Voice and cello)
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Tung Auditorium
Yoko Ono Lennon Centre
Oxford Street, Liverpool L7 3NY England
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