Cavaleri String Quartet, Celan Quartet, Gildas Quartet, Quatuor Hermes

Arvo Pärt Fratres
Jonathan Harvey Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
Sir John Tavener Towards Silence for four string quartets and large Tibetan bowl

The late Sir John Tavener composed some of the most distinctive music in our time and, to mark what would have been his 70th year, we are delighted to present Towards Silence, a work for four string quartet and large Tibetan bowl.

Towards Silence explores the nature of consciousness and the sense of being at the very edge of life itself. The music taking the listener through the four mystical Hindu states of Atma: the waking state, the dream state, the condition of deep sleep, and that which is beyond. With the four quartets placed around the gallery, this is a performance that allows you to immerse yourself in the energy and rich sonorities of the strings and the hypnotic ringing of a Tibetan temple bowl.