Programme Notes for the evening (PDF - 17 February 2013)

String Quartet in C, Op. 74 No. 1 [Hob. III:72]

String Quartet No. 3, Op. 94

Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op. 81

Another in the Chilingirian Quartet’s survey of famous romantic piano quintets. They are joined by Michael Dussek in the beautiful Dvořák quintet, composed in 1887. The quartet also perform a mid-period Haydn quartet and, in celebration of his centenary, some music by Britten − his final quartet, composed at the very end of his life in 1975.