Absolute Music explores the beauty of Maurice Ravel's String Quartet in F Major through readings and music.

Passages from Proust as well as poetry by the likes of Wordsworth, Auden and Larkin evoke a Paris at the dawn of the 20th Century when the new industrial age fired Ravel's fascination with factories, machines and mathematical precision.

Devised by renowned actor Sir Simon Russell Beale, he is joined on stage by Kathryn Worth and Kate Gielgud, with music played by concert pianist Nico De Villiers. The evening will end with a performance of Ravel's exquisite piece by some of the UK's foremost upcoming musicians.

This performance is a fundraiser for The Queen's Park, a new opera by Mary Phillips celebrating the history of Queen's Park, to be performed in a marquee in the park from July 3-5 2020.

For more details see www.bigtopchorus.com

We would like to thank UCS Senior School for hosting this evening for us in their beautiful Great Hall.