Bozzini Quartet | Just So
Cassandra Miller’s work has been hailed among the “best classical music works of the 21st century” by the Guardian. An opportunity to hear her work played by long-term collaborators Bozzini Quartet, in a programme also featuring Howard Skempton’s Tendrils and Britten’s second String Quartet.
Bozzini Quartet play two works by Aldeburgh Festival featured musician Cassandra Miller, as well as Tendrils, described as a “masterly display of Skempton’s utterly natural art.”
Britten’s second String Quartet concludes the performance. All three Britten String Quartets will be making an appearance at the Festival.
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The most sumptuous conviction... the best classical music works of the 21st centuryThe Guardian on the work of Cassandra Miller
Bold, kind-hearted, wistful, brave… miraculously beautifulHerald Scotland on Cassandra Miller
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Cassandra Miller on Warblework
"This piece has an unusual origin. Years ago, in order to leave my home on the west coast of Canada to study composition in Europe, I raised money for my travel by selling as-yet unwritten bars of music to everyone I’d ever met. The result was a huge commission from over sixty friends, family, and community members. In 2011, with the help of the Quatuor Bozzini, I finally made good on my promise and created the piece Warblework.
Each of Warblework’s four movements is based on birdsong – of four thrushes in particular – Swainson’s thrush, hermit thrush, wood thrush, veery thrush, whose songs follow the harmonic series. When these birdsongs are slowed down, they reveal incredibly human-like melodies. These four movements therefore put forth something of a poem of the regional sounds from my home and its forests. While the thrushes move through the harmonic series, a tune in slow motion reveals melodies almost resembling folk and jazz vocality from another time."
