Cello & Piano Afternoon Concert in Kew

S T R A T H A I L – the duo comprising Louise McMonagle and Neil Georgeson – aims to bring a new identity to cello & piano concert repertoire, championing new compositions, experimental sounds, and exploring different ways of improvising. In this concert they present three pieces which reflect their experiences of isolation this year. For news and upcoming performances please follow @noisycellist on Twitter.

In this concert they present three pieces which reflect their experiences of isolation this year. In the first, composer Reiko Füting creates a musical meditation where fragments of folk songs, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mahler, and Schönberg are hinted at, enveloped in the warmth of resonant open strings and natural harmonics. Ann Cleare uses the two instruments uniquely to probe the relation between inner and outer worlds of sound, and Eric Wubbels’ frenetic piece alternates compulsive loops of thought and repetitive behavior with plateaus of regular, “idling” motion…