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The Elias Quartet play Beethoven and Sally Beamish. Beamish's 3rd String Quartet 'Reed Stanzas' was inspired partly by the Elias Quartet's Donald Grant who doubles as a Scottish fiddle player, and also by bird calls and the landscapes of Suffolk and Harris. Beethoven is on either side of the Beamish. At the turn of the 18th century, with the first of his earliest set of quartets, Op.18, Beethoven threw down the gauntlet to Haydn, the string quartet's inventor and preeminent composer; less than a decade later, with his three 'Razumovsky' quartets, Beethoven had become the acclaimed and undisputed master of the genre.

Another chance to hear this concert recorded last September at Kings Place, and presented by Ian Skelly.

7.30pm
Beethoven; String Quartet No. 1 in F, Op. 18, No. 1
Sally Beamish: String Quartet No. 3 'Reed Stanzas'

c.8.30pm
Interval music
Beethoven: Sextet for Wind, Op.71.
London Baroque Soloists

c.8.50pm
Beethoven; String Quartet No. 9 in C, Op. 59, 'Razumovsky' No. 3

Elias Quartet