Programme Notes for the evening (PDF - November 6th 2011)

Quartet in B minor, Op.33 No. 1 [Hob. III:37]

String Quartet No.1 Op.25

String Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op.51 No.1

Rakhi Singh, violin
Katie Stillman, violin
Ella Brinch, viola
Ashok Klouda, cello

The Barbirolli Quartet, rising stars amongst new British chamber ensembles, perform mid-period Haydn, and first quartets by Britten (composed 1941) and Brahms, a piece finally completed in 1873, after some eight years of labour.