Doric String Quartet
The Doric String Quartet performing at the Theatre by the Lake, Keswick. Haydn: Quartet in G, Op 76 No 1. Britten: Quartet No 2 in C, Op 36. Beethoven: Quartet in B flat, Op 130.
Live from the Theatre by the Lake in Keswick
Presented by Stuart Flinders
The Doric Quartet perform music by Haydn, Britten and Beethoven
Haydn: Quartet in G Op 76 No 1
Britten: Quartet No 2 in C Op 36
Beethoven: Quartet in B flat Op 130
A group recently described as one of the world's "finest young string quartets', the Doric Quartet perform a late, great quartet by Haydn, Britten's 1945 quartet No 2 and Beethoven's Opus 130, concluding with the towering Grosse Fuge.
Alex Reddington (violin)
Jonathan Stone (violin)
Hélène Clément (viola)
John Myerscough (cello).
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Joseph Haydn
Quartet in G Op 76 No 1
Ensemble: Doric Quartet.![]()
Benjamin Britten
Quartet No 2 in C Op 36
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Quartet in B flat Op 130
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude & Fugue in B flat minor (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2)
Performer: Angela Hewitt (piano).
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