Artists
- Elias String Quartet
- Date
- Sat 10 Jan 2015, 7.30pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Ludwig van Beethoven1770-1827
- String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5
- Razumovsky Op. 59 No. 3
Interval
- Ludwig van Beethoven1770-1827
- String Quartet in C sharp minor Op. 131
Overview
The Elias String Quartet continues its Beethovenjourney with a programme of early, middle and lateworks, capped by an exploration of the universecontained within the composer’s Op. 131.
AlthoughBeethoven joked that his C sharp minor quartet was‘cobbled together out of various things stolen fromhere and there’, the piece ranks among the finestworks of Western art.