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Spitalfields Summer Festival

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Cheltenham Music Festival

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Maxwell Quartet

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Alasdair Beatson

Piano

Colin Scobie

Violin I

George Smith

Violin II

Elliott Perks

Viola

Duncan Strachan

Cello

Sir James MacMillan’s We Are Collective

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Shoreditch Church

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We Are Collective

String Quartet No. 2

Piano Quintet in F Minor

Jnanakumar P

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Maxwell Quartet bring their explosive hybrid of classical and folk music to Spitalfields Music Festival on Friday 7 July 2023.Alongside Gather - the ensemble...

Sir James MacMillan’s We Are Collective: We Are Collective MacMillan (+2 More)

Take note of the Maxwell Quartet – they bring wit, charisma and a sense of adventure to their programmes” The New York Times

Shoreditch’s ancient church, mentioned in the nursery rhyme ‘Oranges and Lemons’, provides a very special backdrop for the English premiere of a new piano quintet – We Are Collective – by acclaimed composer Sir James MacMillan. Its tongue-in-cheek flavour is mixed with wisps and allusions of half-forgotten old Scottish songs – here performed by fellow Scots, the Maxwell Quartet – before a finale infused with jazz and blues references.

The spirit of folk music connects the Maxwell Quartet’s own re-workings of Scottish traditional music and Eleanor Alberga’s joyous and energetic String Quartet no 2, while the programme is completed by Cesar Franck’s ultra-expressive piano quintet.

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Sir James MacMillan’s We Are Collective by MacMillan, Alberga, Franck, From (2023/2023), Shoreditch Church, London, United Kingdom

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