Planning Ideas
From 2024-2025 onwards
Steve Reich, Kate Bush and Alice Zawadzki
Solem Quartet with Alice Zawadzki (voice)
Read the introduction to this programme...
| Steve Reich: Different Trains |
| Interval |
| Alice Zawadzki: Selection of songs |
| Kate Bush, arr. William Newell: A selection of her songs |
New Impressions
Solem Quartet
Read the introduction to this programme...| Nadia Boulanger, arr. Amy Tress: Three Pieces for cello and piano, arranged for string quartet |
| Lili Boulanger, arr. William Newell: Deux morceaux, arranged for string quartet |
| OR Henriëtte Bosmans: String Quartet (to replace Nadia and Lili Boulanger pieces) |
| Edmund Finnis: String Quartet no. 3, Devotions |
| Interval |
| Claude Debussy: Quartet in G Minor, op. 10 |
2025-2026 - From earlier in the season
Towards Silence
Solem Quartet
Music which asks us to contemplate, or perhaps mourn Earth’s current condition, but also reminds us of its natural aural beauty.
Read the full introduction to this programme...
| Hildegard von Bingen: O quam mirabilis est |
| Cassandra Miller: Warblework |
| John Metcalf: String Quartet, Towards Silence |
| Interval |
| Nick Martin: Queer Tears |
| Meredith Monk: Stringsongs |
| Max Richter: On the Nature of Daylight |
Stringsongs
Solem Quartet
Read the introduction to this programme...
| William Grant Still: Lyric Quartettte, Musical Portraits of Three Friends |
| Meredith Monk: Stringsongs OR Ryan Latimer: New Work |
| Interval |
| Antonin Dvořák: String Quartet no.13 in G major, op.106 |
2025-2026 - From later in the season
Europe and America
Solem Quartet
Read the introduction to this programme...
| Meredith Monk: Stringsongs |
| Antonin Dvořák: Cypresses B 152, selection |
| Interval |
| Dani Howard: New Commission |
| Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String Quartet no. 2 in E flat major, op. 26 |