Grosse Fuge Study Day May 11, 2024 1-6pm One Day in-person Course at Jaqueline Du Pre Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Oxford Join the Villiers Quartet for a day of musical discovery as we explore Beethoven’s extraordinary Grosse Fuge. It is an astonishing piece of music labelled by Stravinsky as “eternally contemporary.” Seen as […]
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When the pandemic hit, we wanted to have greater agency over delivering our education programmes online, especially when it came to working with schools & students. Lockdown didn’t allow us to meet in person with schools, so we had to think outside the box. With the help of the RPS Enterprise Fund grant which we […]
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As we prepare for our next VQ Discovery course, it is with special feeling that we look closely at Beethoven’s Quartet in A minor, op. 132. Even amongst his epic late quartets, this particular work stands out and seems to carry a weight that is especially personal to Beethoven. We can feel it in every movement, but most […]
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We first performed Ailsa Dixon’s chamber music with her set of songs The Spirit of Love, written for Soprano and String Quartet. When we gave the world premiere with the soprano Lucy Cox at St. Geroge’s Hall Bristol in late February 2020, little did we know this would be one of the last concerts we […]
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