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The acclaimed period instrument Chiaroscuro Quartet perform Schubert’s 'Death and the Maiden' Quartet plus works by Bach and Haydn from the Edinburgh International Festival 2017.

Every weekday for three weeks, Radio 3 broadcasts one of the stand-out concerts from the Queen’s Hall series over the past decade. Today Donald Macleod introduces the Chiaroscuro Quartet, celebrated for their trailblazing work performing classical chamber music on gut strings. This recording from the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival features a dazzling performance of Schubert’s sorrowful ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet, plus one of Haydn’s Op.76 works, his final visionary word on the quartet form. The recital opens with JS Bach’s most enigmatic work, the Art of Fugue.

Bach: The Art of Fugue BWV 1080, Nos 1,4 and 9
Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op.76 No.6

INTERVAL: Joshua Bell plays works by Brahms and Rachmaninov

Schubert: String Quartet No.14 in D minor, D810 'Death and the Maiden'

The Chiaroscuro Quartet

Photograph - Eva Vermandel

1 hour, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue), BWV1080, Contrapunctus I

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue), BWV1080, Contrapunctus IV

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue), BWV1080, Contrapunctus IX

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major, Op.76 No.6

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • For The Love Of Brahms.
    • Sony.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Conductor: Michael Stern.
    • Joshua Bell - Voice of the Violin.
    • Sony.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No.14 in D minor, D.810, 'Death and the Maiden'

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Andante in F major, WoO 57, 'Andante favori'

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam.
    • Beethoven: Piano music: Ronald Brautigam.
    • Etcetera.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Mon 24 Aug 2020 11:00