Saturday 21 Jan 2012

19:30, Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP; Tel. 020 7935 2141.
Tickets: £12, £16, £22, £26, also available online

Programme

String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2
String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’
String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131

Building on the shoulders of giants, Beethoven assimilated the achievements of Haydn and Mozart in his Op. 18 string quartets before developing the medium’s expressive potential through his Op. 59 ‘Razumovsky’ Quartets.

The Belcea Quartet caps the latest instalment in its complete Wigmore Hall Beethoven cycle with the monumental String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131, justifiably described by Donald Tovey as the composer’s ‘most fantastic and revolutionary’ work.

Details on www.wigmore-hall.org.uk