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Musical Programme

Pre-Competition Stage

Any Haydn quartet and Webern’s Six Bagatelles to be submitted on DVD as an audio recording by 15th September 2011. (see Competition Application for more details).

Preliminary Round

• The Preliminary Round will take place from Tuesday 27th March - Friday 30th March 2012.
• The venue will be the Royal Academy of Music.
• Each invited quartet will be required to perform two recitals, one each on two of the four days.
  The precise order, time and days of each quartet's performance will be publicised one month
  in advance.
• Subject to the votes of the Competition Jury, at least 6 quartets will go forward to the Semi-finals at Wigmore Hall.

The programme for the two recitals will be as follows:

1. Recital 1
   • Mozart  Any one of ten late quartets (see list below)
   • Any major twentieth century quartet written after 1918, excluding Shostakovich

Mozart Quartets:
G Major K387, D Minor K421, E Flat Major K428, B Flat Major K458, A Major K 464, C Major K465,
D Major K499, D Major K575, B Flat Major K589, F Major K590

2. Recital 2
   • Haydn  Any one of quartets Op 64, Op 76 or Op 77
   • Brett Dean  Eclipse

Semi-finals

• The Semi-finals will take place on Saturday 31st March 2012.
• The programming and order of play of each concert will be decided by ballot.
• Semi-finalists must play any one of Beethoven's quartets except Op 18 and
  the Große Fuge Op 133
• Subject to the votes of the Competition Jury, at least 3 quartets will be selected to perform in the Final the following evening at Wigmore Hall.

Final

• The Finals will take place on evening of Sunday 1st April 2012
• The ensembles that reach the Final of the Competition will be asked to perform one of their two choices from the list below on the night of the Final:
• The order of play will be decided by the Jury. After the Final, there will be a prize-giving ceremony on stage.
• Entrants are reminded that they may propose other works to those listed below. Should they do so, they will only be accepted if, in the opinion of the Invitation Jury, they are of a comparable standing to those listed below.
• The works chosen by the ensembles and stated on the application form will only be considered final after confirmation by the Competition’s General Manager and can thereafter only be substituted before the Competition with prior approval.
• The Final of the Competition will be recorded by BBC Radio 3 for broadcast at a later date.

List A (Romantic period):

• Brahms  Any Quartet
• Debussy  Quartet in G minor
• Dvorak  Quartet in A flat major Op 105 or Quartet in G major Op 106
• Mendelssohn  Any Quartet
• Ravel  Quartet in F major
• Schubert  Quartet in G major D887, Quartet in G minor D173, Quartet in D minor D810 No 14 or Quartet in A minor D804 No 13
• Schumann  Any Quartet
• Smetana  Quartet in E minor Op 116 No 1