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Brìghde Chaimbeul and Maxwell Quartet

Combine folk music and classical music
  • Thu 7 May ’26
    20:15
    de Doelen
    Jurriaanse Zaal
    sale starts Thu 3 Apr ’25 14:00

  • €3 or €1,5 service costs excluded per per ticket. Read more about the service charge here.

Scottish piper Brìghde Chaimbeul and the Maxwell Quartet join forces in a programme in which folk music and classical music merge seamlessly. From the repetitive patterns of Philip Glass’s Two Pages and String Quartet No. 2 to the lyrical sounds of Linda Buckley’s Thar Farraige, all the musicians come together. 

Folk music forms the common thread, with traditional Psalms, Laments and Waulking Songs, largely from female traditions, and new arrangements in which the Maxwell Quartet and Chaimbeul explore each other’s worlds. Prokofiev’s String Quartet No. 2, infused with folk melodies from the independent republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in Russia, completes the circle.

concert themes and series:

programme

Glass Two Pages | Buckley Thar Farraige | Trad Psalms, Laments and Waulking Songs (arr. Maxwell Quartet) | Glass String Quartet No. 2 “Company” | Prokofiev String Quartet No. 2 “on Kabardinian Themes” | Maxwell Quartet & Brighde Chaimbeul arrangements of folk music

credits

Brighde Chaimbeul bagpipes | Maxwell Quartet

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