24 October

( please note this concert is on a Saturday rather than a Sunday)

Edinburgh Quartet

One of Britain's most celebrated chamber ensembles, the Edinburgh Quartet brings a programme of rare beauty and emotional depth.

The first half opens with Haydn's String Quartet in F major Op. 77 No. 2, one of his very last quartets and among the most searching he ever wrote. It is followed by two deeply felt elegies: Rebecca Clarke's ravishing Poème for string quartet, a work of Impressionist warmth and intensity from 1926, and Puccini's Crisantemi — a single, heartbreaking adagio written in a single night in 1890 to mourn the death of a friend, and one of the most moving pieces ever written for string quartet.

After the interval, Schubert's monumental String Quartet in G major D. 887 takes the stage: vast, restless, and transcendent, one of the greatest and most demanding works in the entire quartet repertoire.

Sadie Fields, violin · Gongbo Jiang, violin · Catherine Marwood, viola · Mark Bailey, cello