Details
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore St
Marylebone
London
W1U 2BP
England
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet no.23 in F major, K.590
Johannes Brahms – String Quartet in C minor, Op.51 no.1
Alban Berg – Lyric Suite
Performers
Belcea Quartet
Programme Note
The works in this programme fully complement the artistry, musicianship and temperament of the Belcea Quartet.
The first half opens with the extrovert brilliance of Mozart’s third ‘Prussian’ Quartet before moving to Brahms’s tightly structured String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1. Berg’s impassioned Lyric Suite, written in response to the composer’s extramarital affair with Hanna Fuchs, was aptly described by his former pupil Theodor W. Adorno as ‘a latent opera’.