To mark the 30th anniversary of Burgess’s death, a ‘lost’ string quartet by Anthony Burgess will be given its first performance on Friday 1 December 2023.
This special commemorative concert will showcases Burgess’s writing for strings, male voice and chamber ensemble.
The quartet, whose existence was not known until a few months ago, has been discovered among uncatalogued papers in the archive of the Burgess Foundation.
The concert will also cover feature a quartet by Beethoven, one of Burgess’s favourite composers.
The string quartet will receive its premiere at the Burgess Foundation in Manchester, on Friday 1 December at 7:30 pm.
This newly discovered string quartet will be performed alongside the song cycle ‘Man Who Has Come Through’, based on four late poems by D.H. Lawrence, set by Burgess for tenor and chamber ensemble in 1985. The song cycle, originally composed as part of the Lawrence centenary celebrations, has been performed in Nottingham and Edinburgh. This will be its Manchester premiere.
Beethoven’s famous late String Quartet in F major, opus no. 135, completes the programme for the evening.
