“What’s the Word?” brings music and poetry into an intimate search for meaning. Barry Guy’s response to Samuel Beckett’s final poem captures a restless pursuit of the unnameable, where language falters and music takes over. Spoken poetic interludes lead towards Haydn’s “The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross”, a profound meditation in which instruments appear to speak. Across two contrasting works, ADAM Quartet explores folly, silence, spirituality, and the human need to find words for what lies beyond them.