Priority Booking for this concert will open to Friends of Wigmore Hall from Wednesday 8 January at 10.00am. For a full breakdown of booking dates, please visit our Priority Booking page.

General sale for this concert will open at 10.00am on Tuesday 21 January.

Schoenberg’s First String Quartet, completed in 1905, captures the feverish mood of a pre-war society too busy to notice that it was dancing on the edge of a volcano. The Belcea Quartet also explores the boundless transcendence of Beethoven’s monumental Op. 131.