Artists
- Elias String Quartet
- Sara Bitllochviolin
- Donald Grantviolin
- Simone van der Giessenviola
- Marie Bitllochcello
Elias String Quartet
Image credit: © Kaupo Kikkas
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
While almost totally deaf by 1818, tormented by tinnitus and frequently ill, Beethoven overcame his many difficulties to create visionary works of inexhaustible invention and expressive richness. The Elias String Quartet concludes the latest episode in its season-long survey of the composer’s complete quartets with an exploration of the extreme emotional contrasts of his Op. 130, performed here with the ‘Great Fugue’ as its towering finale.