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St Paul's Church
St Paul's Hill
Winchester
Hampshire
SO22 5AB
England
Tickets
Prices: £20 in advance online, £25 on the door
Book Tickets
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in F major 'Razumovsky', Op.59 no.1
Ailsa Dixon – The Spirit of Love
Ailsa Dixon – Sohrab and Rustum
Ailsa Dixon – The 'lost' Scherzo
William Alwyn – String Quartet no.9 (Romeo and Juliet)
Performers
Lucy Cox – Soprano
Jaysol Doy – Reader
Programme Note
An afternoon recital celebrating the mutual influence of music and poetry, with a programme of works for string quartet and soprano interspersed with readings.
Beginning with Beethoven, whose music inspired a sequence of tender lyrical poems by Ruth Padel, the concert will include rediscovered works by Ailsa Dixon and William Alwyn’s intimate, expressive tone poem inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Introducing highlights from their recent recording of Ailsa Dixon’s chamber music, the Villiers Quartet will be showcasing works including an atmospheric string quartet inspired by Matthew Arnold’s narrative poem Sohrab and Rustum, and songs for soprano and string quartet featuring settings of A E Housman’s ‘From far, from eve and morning’ and F W Bourdillon’s ‘The night has a thousand eyes’.
This concert is generously supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation.
