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The Belcea Quartet performs Haydn and Britten

Live from Wigmore Hall, London. The Belcea Quartet plays Haydn's String Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2, 'Fifths', and Britten's String Quartet No 3 in G, Op 94.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London. The Belcea String Quartet celebrate the 100th anniversary of the great music critic and analyst Hans Keller with Haydn's turbulent Quartet Op 76 No 2 (known as 'The Fifths') and Britten's Quartet No. 3, with its strong thematic and atmospheric links to his final opera Death in Venice.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2 (Fifths)
Britten: String Quartet No 3

Belcea String Quartet

57 minutes

Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2 ("Quinten")

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
  • Benjamin Britten

    String Quartet No. 3 in G, op. 94

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Friday afternoons Op.7 (Cuckoo!)

    Choir: New London Children鈥檚 Choir. Performer: Alexander Wells. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Britten: A Ceremony of Carols.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Prelude

    Ensemble: Calefax.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 11 Mar 2019 13:00
  • Sun 17 Mar 2019 13:00

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