Mon 25th August 2014 1:00pm

Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, Royal String Quartet

at Cadogan Hall, London

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BBC Proms 2014 Chamber Music 6

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Louis Schwizgebel made his concerto debut at the Proms earlier this season and now returns for a programme of chamber music.

He is joined by the Royal String Quartet for a concert that concludes with Richard Strauss’s extraordinary Metamorphosen – heard here in the string septet form in which Strauss originally drafted it, before he expanded it for an ensemble of 23 solo strings.

Alongside it is a rarely heard curiosity – Mahler’s contemplative Piano Quartet movement, the tantalising torso of a work never completed.

Mozart Piano Sonata in D major, K.311
Mahler Piano Quartet in A minor
R. Strauss Metamorphosen (version for septet) (arr. R. Leopold)

Louis Schwizgebel

Louis Schwizgebel began studying the piano at age six. He entered the Lausanne Conservatory of Music aged nine and graduated at fifteen. Since then he…

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Royal String Quartet

Established in 1998, this Warsaw-based ensemble has established an enviable reputation with their technically superb performances and youthful energy…

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