This concert with the Villiers Quartet took new audiences through a window into the virtuosic and vexed soul of a profoundly deaf Beethoven, on a wander through the epic fiddling of Finnish patriot Sibelius, and through the trauma of tortured genius Shostakovich; picking up along the way the forgotten romanticism of William Alwyn and the unreserved joy of the father of the string quartet, Haydn.
With plenty of humour and jubilant moments of music in between, this rollercoaster ride poignantly and dramatically shared the musical passions of the Villiers with young audiences.
The concert also featured works by Musgrave, Marsalis and Britten and was created specifically for KS2 school groups and children aged 7 – 11 and their families.
Inside Out was supported by funding from Arts Council England, The Villiers Trust, Nottingham Chamber Music Festival and support from Nottingham High School, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, The National Centre for Early Music and The Gulbenkian.
Photos by Saba Walton Photography.
Inside Out toured in 2019 to:
National Centre for Early Music, York
Gulbenkian, University of Kent, Canterbury
Nottingham Lakeside Arts
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