Chilingirian Quartet

Performers

Chilingirian Quartet

Programme

Haydn

String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5

Ravel

String Quartet in F

Brahms

String Quartet in A minorOp. 51 No. 2

About this concert

London audiences discovered the Chilingirian Quartet’s dynamic playing and vital musicianship soon after its formation in 1971. The Chilingirians celebrate the 40th anniversary of their formation with a programme of delightful masterworks.

Ravel’s String Quartet was famously rejected by the jury of the Prix de Rome and learned professors of the Conservatoire de Paris, but was soon recognised as one of the great works of modern chamber music. Haydn shows his total command of Classical form and free-wheeling ability to subvert its rules in his Op. 76 quartets, while Brahms deals in expansive lyricism and entrancing dance rhythms in the String Quartet in A minor Op. 51.