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Proms Chamber Music: Apollon Musagète Quartet

Proms Chamber Music from the archive. Works by Webern and Beethoven frame the European premiere of Colin Matthews’s Fifth String Quartet, given by the Apollon Musagete Quartet.

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Webern: Langsamer Satz
Colin Matthews: String Quartet No. 5 (European premiere)
Beethoven: String Quartet in D major, Op. 18 No. 3

Apollon Musagète Quartet

(From Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Proms 2015, 3 August)

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Former Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Apollon Musagète Quartet present the European premiere of the Fifth String Quartet by one of Britain’s foremost living composers, Colin Matthews. Commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the Tanglewood Festival in 2015, the piece remains the last work Matthews has written in the medium.

Bookending the Quartet are Webern’s youthful Langsamer Satz – an ecstatic piece that showcases the composer’s formal skill within a lyrical idiom – and Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18 No. 3. Of Beethoven’s six Op. 18 quartets, No. 3 is both the lightest and the hardest to pin down: the scherzo is fleeting, and even the framing movements have an unusual delicacy and wistfulness about them.

55 minutes

Last on

Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:00

Music Played

  • Anton Webern

    Langsamer Satz [1905] For String Quartet

    Ensemble: Apollon Musagete Quartet.
  • Colin Matthews

    Quartet No. 5 For Strings

    Ensemble: Apollon Musagete Quartet.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quartet In D Major Op.18`3 For Strings

    Ensemble: Apollon Musagete Quartet.

Broadcast

  • Mon 20 Jul 2020 13:00

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