Stephen Goss - Seurat’s Bathers, from Wynwood Walls (2023) - Guitar and String Quartet

Performers: Asaka Quartet, Francisco Correa - Guitar --------------------------------------- PROGRAM: Seurat’s Bathers From Wynwood Walls (2023) , by Stephen Goss --------------------------------------- Guitar: Phillip Woodfield 2023 Strings: D’Addario EJ46FF Audio by Matthew Wadsworth Video by Michael Addlesse - Francisco Correa Seurat’s Bathers from Wynwood Walls (2023), by Stephen Goss Wynwood Walls, for guitar and string quartet, draws on 9 artworks which lend their titles to the 9 connected sections of the quintet. In performance, the artworks can be projected onto a screen behind the ensemble. The movements are organised in pairs, circling out from a still centre. The two sections that bookend the piece are Bathers at Asnières, which suggests Seurat’s iconic painting, and Seurat’s Bathers which evokes Howard Hodgkin’s colourful reworking of the Seurat. Wynwood Walls was commissioned for Mesut Özgen by the Mi