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Mozart: Quartet in D, K.499
Beethoven: Quartet in C#m, Op.131
Belcea Quartet
Sadly violist, Diyang Mei is unable to appear in this concert a previously advertised. We are grateful to the Belcea Quartet for offering Mozart’s wonderful ‘Hoffmeister’ Quartet in lieu of the planned Quintet. His own publisher wrote that it was composed ‘with that fire of the imagination and that correctness which long since won for Herr M. the reputation of one of the best composers in Germany’. After the interval they reach the heart of Beethoven’s late quartets, both numerically (it is the third of five) and in stature. It was reputedly Beethoven’s own favourite, and a work that left all who heard it in awe. Figures of the stature of Wagner, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf are among the many who were both inspired and intimidated by its astounding achievement. Schubert reputedly said ‘After this, what is left for us to write?’ Certainly, it is unlike anything they would have heard before.
An updated programme may be downloaded here: Beethoven Late Quartets 3 Updated