Carducci String Quartet, Reiko Fujisawa

Haydn String Quartet No. 4 in D, Op. 20
Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
Schumann arr. Liszt ‘Widmung’ from Myrthen, Op. 25
Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44

Matthew Denton violin
Michelle Fleming violin
Eoin Schmidt-Martin viola
Emma Denton cello
Reiko Fujisawa piano

The famous Carducci Quartet perform one of the most popular and melodic of Haydn’s quartets, No. 4 from the Op. 20 set with its ravishingly beautiful slow movement and Hungarian-inspired minuet movement, and follow it with Mendelssohn’s passionate and stormy last quartet in F minor.

The Quartet is then joined by the celebrated pianist Reiko Fujisawa in Schumann’s ever-popular Quintet for piano and strings, ‘preludised’ by Liszt’s arrangement of Schumann’s beautiful ‘Widmung’ (‘Dedication’) from the Myrthen song collection.