Heath Quartet

Performers

Heath Quartet

Programme

Mendelssohn

String Quartet in E flat Op. 12

Janácek

String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’

About this concert

Recent recipients of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust’s special ensemble scholarship, the Heath Quartet’s star continues to rise with the critics and public alike.

The ensemble, which performed two complete cycles of Beethoven’s string quartets in Spain and Edinburgh in 2011, devotes its perceptive artistry here to Mendelssohn’s delightful early String Quartet in Eb Op. 12 and the altogether more complex expressive territory of Janácek’s ‘Intimate Letters’, a fiery outpouring of love by its 73-year-old composer for his muse, the much younger Kamila Stösslová.

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust