Miró Quartet | Here on Earth

The Miró Quartet is embarking on a new performance and recording project with Steven Banks and Lara Downes.

The program called Here on Earth features musical depictions of planet earth, its evolution, and its inhabitants, with works spanning two centuries of cultural shift that center around Darius Milhaud's 1923 work La Création du Monde, performed here in Milhaud’s own arrangement for piano and string quartet.

Additional repertoire will explore various aspects of the natural world and our place in it. For example, The River by Billy Childs is an ode to the composer’s love of nature. Jake Heggie’s Earthrise is inspired by the iconic photograph of Earth taken from the surface of the moon during the Apollo 8 landing in 1968. Other works by living composers Clarice Assad and Stephen Banks, as well as Margaret Bonds, Florence Price, Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven round out the program.