Following a survey of Michael Tippett’s string quartets at Wigmore Hall last season, the Heath Quartet returns with a captivating programme of mature masterworks.

Haydn’s Op. 76 No. 6, first published in London in 1799, balances popular melodies with profound reflections on the human condition, while Janáček’s First String Quartet projects an imaginary response to the life of ‘a poor woman, tormented and run down, just like the one … Tolstoy describes in his Kreutzer Sonata.’