Artists
- Elias String Quartet
- Simon Crawford-Phillipspiano
Archived Event
Haydn, Britten and Brahms
Elias String Quartet; Simon Crawford-Phillips piano
- Date
- Sat 16 Apr 2016, 7.30pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Joseph Haydn1732-1809
- String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 57
- Benjamin Britten1913-1976
- String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 25
Interval
- Johannes Brahms1833-1897
- Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34
Overview
Simon Crawford-Phillips joins the Elias StringQuartet in Brahms’s monumental Piano Quintetin F minor Op. 34, a milestone work from thecomposer’s early maturity.
The Quartet beginswith Haydn’s Op. 54 No. 2, a tour de force ofviolin virtuosity, and continues with Britten’sadventurous First String Quartet of 1941,written in the garden toolshed of his wartimehosts in California.