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Fitzwilliam String Quartet

Part of the Beverley Early Music Festival 2016

Add to my Calendar 29-05-2016 19:30 29-05-2016 21:30 36 Fitzwilliam String Quartet Beethoven String Quartet Op. 74 in Eb ‘The Harp’String Quartet Op. 95 in F minorString Quartet Op. 135 in F As the renowned Fitzwilliam String Quartet prepare for their latest Beethoven recording, they return to Beverley with a programme featuring three of the composer’s most groundbreaking quartets: the so-called “Harp” perhaps the most accessible of his middle period quartets; Quartetto Serioso (Op.95), surely one of the most tersely confrontational works he ever wrote, and certainly the shortest of his 16 quartets; and finally the elliptical F major – the last one of all – in which he seems to be turning his back on the cosmic philosophical musings of its four mighty predecessors, instead striking out in new directions with something at once leaner, more genial and high spirited St James' Church, Warter DD/MM/YYYY

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St James' Church
Warter
Warter
North Yorkshire
YO42 1XR
England

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in E flat major 'Harp', Op.74
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in F minor 'Serioso', Op.95

Performers

Lucy Russell – violin

Fitzwilliam String Quartet

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Programme Note

Beethoven String Quartet Op. 74 in Eb ‘The Harp’
String Quartet Op. 95 in F minor
String Quartet Op. 135 in F

As the renowned Fitzwilliam String Quartet prepare for their latest Beethoven recording, they return to Beverley with a programme featuring three of the composer’s most groundbreaking quartets: the so-called “Harp” perhaps the most accessible of his middle period quartets; Quartetto Serioso (Op.95), surely one of the most tersely confrontational works he ever wrote, and certainly the shortest of his 16 quartets; and finally the elliptical F major – the last one of all – in which he seems to be turning his back on the cosmic philosophical musings of its four mighty predecessors, instead striking out in new directions with something at once leaner, more genial and high spirited

Fitzwilliam String Quartet

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