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Beethoven
Elias String Quartet
Date
Sat 07 Mar 2015, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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  • Elias String Quartet

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    Overview

    For the composer Robert Simpson, Beethoven’s final string quartet contained ‘the most sensitively coloured quartet writing in existence’. The Op. 135 score combines searing tragedy and subtle humour, the latter used to reflect on life’s fragility.

    The Elias String Quartet’s Beethoven cycle places the piece in company with two other pioneering works, both of which anticipate the spiritual heights attained in the composer’s late quartets.

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