Eeden Quartet

Vlad Maistorovici - violin
Edward Brenton - violin
Alex Koustas - viola
Joseph Zeitlin - cello

Schubert: Quartettsatz D703
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A minor Op.13
Debussy: String Quartet in G minor Op.10

The Eeden Quartet is named after Van den Eeden, one of Beethoven’s first keyboard teachers and a prominent influential figure in his formative years. The Quartet performs regularly throughout Europe. Highlights for 2015/16 include a tour of Scotland, Wales, Channel Islands and quintet concerts with Leslie Howard and Graham Oppenheimer.

This performance features three Romantic works. Schubert’s Quartettsatz D703 (1820) is the first movement of a string quartet that the composer never completed. The unfinished quartet is regarded as one of the first products of Schubert’s mature phase of composition. Secondly, Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in A minor (1827) features one of the earliest and most significant examples of cyclic form in music. Finally, Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor (1893) was written at the height of the fin-de-siecle and features impressionistic tonal shifts, characteristic of the composer’s style.

Tickets: £10. Free entry for people aged 8 – 25 (courtesy of the CAVATINA Ticket Scheme).

Doors open at 5.30pm. A cash bar will be available from 5.45pm.