Konus Quartet

The Konus Quartet from Bern in Switzerland are extraordinary instrumentalists, whose controlled sound is quite unlike that of any other saxophone quartet. Tonight they present major works by Wandelweiser composer Jürg Frey and Berlin-based Chiyoko Szlavnics, whose beautiful music of sustained tones and glissandi rarely gets performed in the UK. In between those pieces pianist Philip Thomas plays a series of short works by Frey, Linda Catlin Smith, Marc Sabat as well as Cassandra Miller’s stunning ‘Philip the Wanderer’.