Our Burgess music collection is almost as extensive as our collection of the author’s books and manuscripts. This concert offers the opportunity to hear chamber works from three of the 20th Century English composers who influenced Burgess’s own musical compositions, and who Burgess liked to listen to when he wasn’t working away at the typewriter. Click here to book tickets.

The Gildas Quartet (2013 Tunnell Trust award winners and Park Lane Group artists) are an exciting young ensemble based in Manchester; read more about them at www.gildasquartet.co.uk. They will be performing Frank Bridge Three Idylls for String Quartet Edward Elgar String Quartet in E minor and Michael Tippett String Quartet in F sharp major