Music | Barber Evening
Concerts | Royal String Quartet
Wednesday 18 March 2009
at 7.30 pm
Royal String Quartet
Izabella Szałaj-Zimak, Elwira Przybyłowska violins
Marek Czech viola · Michał Pepol cello
Haydn and Mendelssohn Bicentenary
Shortlisted by the Royal Philharmonic Society as one of the three most outstanding chamber groups to appear in 2006, the Royal String Quartet has since gained a reputation as one of the world’s most interesting and dynamic string quartets of the younger generation. It has won rave reviews with such superlatives as ‘technically superb’, ‘youthful energy certainly not in short supply’ and ‘an undeniably talented group’. Such opinions were confirmed in 2007 by the Special Prize of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Their programme commemorates the death of Haydn and the birth of Mendelssohn, both in 1809.
Haydn Quartet in E flat, op.33 no.2 (‘Joke’); Quartet in B flat, op.76 no.4 (‘Sunrise’)
Mendelssohn Quartet in A minor, op. 13
Tickets: £12, £9 concessions, £6 Friends, £3 students