大象传媒

Live from Upper Chapel, Sheffield

Introduced by Tom Redmond

Beethoven:
Quartet in G Op.18 No.2
Quartet in E flat Op.127

8.40 Interval, during which Tom Redmond talks to Angus Smith - Artistic Director of Music In The Round - about "Bridge", their new string quartet development scheme, and there will also be music by Poulenc and Spohr from Ensemble 360.

9.00 Quartet in F Op.59 No.1 (Rasumovsky)

The Elias Quartet:
Sara Bitlloch and Donald Grant, violins
Martin Saving, viola
Marie Bitlloch, cello

The Elias Quartet perform Beethoven live from Sheffield's Upper Chapel, a Grade II Listed building which dates back to 1700, a century before Beethoven composed the quartets we will hear tonight. The Quartet performs three pieces from very different periods in Beethoven's life - the early Opus 18 No 2 written at the turn of the nineteenth century, the Rasumovsky quartet Opus 59 No 1 written in 1808, and sandwiched between them the late quartet Opus 127 completed in 1825, two years before Beethoven died. The concert forms part of the Elias Quartet's Beethoven Project, which began in 2011 and ends in 2015, in which they are exploring all Beethoven's music for string quartet.