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Elias String Quartet
Image credit: © Kaupo Kikkas

Archived Event

Felix Mendelssohn
Elias String Quartet; Heath Quartet
Date
Tue 18 Jun 2024, 7.30pm
Tickets
Archived Event
Duration

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

Availability

Artists

  • Elias String Quartet
    • Sara Bitllochviolin
    • Donald Grantviolin
    • Simone van der Giessenviola
    • Marie Bitllochcello
  • Heath Quartet
    • Sara Wolstenholmeviolin
    • Juliette Roosviolin
    • Gary Pomeroyviola
    • Christopher Murraycello

Programme

      • String Quartet No. 4 in E minor Op. 44 No. 2
      • String Quintet No. 1 in A Op. 18

Interval

Overview

The Heath Quartet joins the Elias for what is perhaps one of the composer’s finest achievements in the form of his early Octet, preceded by an almost contemporaneous piece in the shape of the First String Quintet; the Fourth Quartet, meanwhile, is a work of the composer’s adulthood, written in 1837.

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