Delius & Dixon with The Villiers Quartet
Church of King Charles the Martyr, London Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 1YX, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 1YX
Saturday 17th October 2026
Also featuring star soprano Lucy Cox.
Ticket price includes optional pre-concert talk at 6:15
The Villiers Quartet is one of the most recognised quartets in the UK for the performance of British music, releasing acclaimed recordings of works by Elgar, Delius, Fricker, Alwyn, William Sterndale Bennett, David Matthews and Kuljit Bhamra. In 2020 the quartet gave the first performance of the 1888 Delius String Quartet, featuring movements from original versions uncovered by Professor Daniel Grimley from Oxford University.
This programme also features rediscovered works by the British composer Ailsa Dixon (1932-2017). Dixon's music frequently expresses a sense of the mysterious, but also features a sense of humour. Her strongest influences have come from the works of Fauré (for their harmonic suppleness), Britten (for his powers of evocation and empathy), and Bartok (whose compositional processes she studied in Durham, stimulating a special interest in lively variations of time signature and the elasticity of musical motifs).
PLEASE NOTE START TIME: 7pm
Programme
Dixon - Lost Scherzo
Dixon - Sohrab & Rustum
Delius - 1888 Quartet
-interval-
Britten/Purcell - Chacony
Alwyn - Quartet No. 9
Dixon - Nocturnal Scherzo
Dixon - Spirit of Love (with Lucy Cox, soprano)
Ticket price includes optional pre-concert talk at 6:15
The Villiers Quartet is one of the most recognised quartets in the UK for the performance of British music, releasing acclaimed recordings of works by Elgar, Delius, Fricker, Alwyn, William Sterndale Bennett, David Matthews and Kuljit Bhamra. In 2020 the quartet gave the first performance of the 1888 Delius String Quartet, featuring movements from original versions uncovered by Professor Daniel Grimley from Oxford University.
This programme also features rediscovered works by the British composer Ailsa Dixon (1932-2017). Dixon's music frequently expresses a sense of the mysterious, but also features a sense of humour. Her strongest influences have come from the works of Fauré (for their harmonic suppleness), Britten (for his powers of evocation and empathy), and Bartok (whose compositional processes she studied in Durham, stimulating a special interest in lively variations of time signature and the elasticity of musical motifs).
PLEASE NOTE START TIME: 7pm
Programme
Dixon - Lost Scherzo
Dixon - Sohrab & Rustum
Delius - 1888 Quartet
-interval-
Britten/Purcell - Chacony
Alwyn - Quartet No. 9
Dixon - Nocturnal Scherzo
Dixon - Spirit of Love (with Lucy Cox, soprano)
