Thu 8th March 2018 7:15pm

Coull Quartet

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From Russia WIth Love

Beethoven liked to keep his supporters sweet – so when a Russian prince asked him to write a quartet, he rounded it off with a flying, foot-stamping Russian dance. And that’s just the climax of this extraordinary masterpiece: a quartet as punchy and as powerful as any symphony.

First, though, we meet some genuine Russians: the brisk, glittering wit of Igor Stravinsky, Shostakovich’s blend of deep emotion and pitch-black humour, and Borodin’s gloriously romantic Second Quartet. It’s so tuneful that one of its melodies actually made the pop charts in the 1950s.

Programme:
Stravinsky - 3 Pieces
Shostakovich - Elegy and Polka
Borodin - Quartet No 2 in D
interval
Beethoven - Quartet in F Op.59 No 1 Rasumovsky