News
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New CD
Date of Story 20 February, Monday, 2012
We have just released a new CD where we are playing together with the wonderful guitarist Xuefei Yang. The repertoire is Bach concertos, transcribed especially for the guitar by Xuefei! -
Playing with a legend
Date of Story 23 January, Monday, 2012
We will have the great honour to play the Brahms Piano Quintet with one of the foremost pianists of our time, Leon Fleischer, in two upcoming concerts: the first in Basingstoke and the second in Wigmore Hall. The Wigmore Hall concert will be broadcast live on BBC 3.
Leon Fleischer studied with Artur Schnabel, and is thus part of a piano tradition handed down from Beethoven himself. Do come along to this rare opportunity to hear a truly legendary musician.
The Basingstoke concert is on the 28th of January and the Wigmore concert on the 30th.
Also on the programme is Webern’s wonderfully romantic “Langsamer Satz”, and in Basingstoke, Beethoven’s Op. 18:6 quartet.
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Next Wigmore concert
Date of Story 3 December, Saturday, 2011
Our next Wigmore concert on the 16th of December will explore fugues, and will include Beethoven’s monumental Op. 130 quartet with the Grosse Fuge. We will also perform Haydn’s extraordinary Op.20:2 quartet in C major (the last movement of which is a fugue, quite different to Beethoven’s!) and some fugues from Bach’s “Art of the Fugue”. Come along and enjoy some different aspects of this musical form.
Read here about our process of learning the Op. 130 quartet.
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Welcome to the Wigmore Hall
Date of Story 13 September, Tuesday, 2011
Welcome to our next concert in the Wigmore Hall. It takes place on Sunday the 18th of September at 11.30. We will be playing Janacek’s “Kreutzer Sonata” and Beethoven’s wonderful Op. 135 quartet. See you there!
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Chamber Music Prom
Date of Story 21 July, Thursday, 2011
We would like to welcome you to our Chamber Music Prom concert that takes place at 1pm on Monday the 25th of July in Cadogan Hall, London. We will be playing Purcell Fantasias, “Reed Stanzas”, a completely fresh quartet by Sally Beamish, and Brahms Clarinet Quintet with the eminent clarinetist Julian Bliss. If you can’t be present, listen to the concert on the radio!
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News from the Elias Quartet
Date of Story 22 May, Sunday, 2011
The Beethoven Project continues and we have received a wonderful response to it during the first month the website has been online. Please visit the website here and leave a comment or contribute to the “Your Beethoven” section.
We have a new video on YouTube with us playing the first movement of Mendelssohn’s quartet Op. 80.
We can also happily announce our new collaboration with the eminent American agency David Rowe Artists. Visit the website here.
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Elias live at Montpellier Radio France festival. Mendelssohn Op. 80, first movement
Date of Story 12 May, Thursday, 2011
Elias live at Montpellier Radio France festival. Mendelssohn Op. 80, first movement.
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The game is afoot…
Date of Story 28 March, Monday, 2011
We are now happy to reveal our aforementioned secret project: We have just launched a new website that will document the process of us learning the complete quartets of Beethoven over a number of years!
“We are incredibly excited to have launched this website which will enable you to follow and be part of our journey through the complete Beethoven String Quartets. We look forward to regularly updating and building the content to share with you in the coming years…It has long been our dream to perform the complete Beethoven String Quartets as a cycle and we feel that it is finally the right time to begin…We will present the cycle in various formats in venues across the country over the next 4 years. We hope this gives us enough time and space to immerse ourselves in the music and present the programmes to as wide an audience as possible. It also enables us to develop this website both as a personal account of our experiences and as a broader educational resource.” Donald writes on the new website.
Please visit:
Enjoy!
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Elias greets the spring
Date of Story 26 February, Saturday, 2011
We are looking forward to a busy month of March, when we will play with the marvelous clarinettist Michael Collins for the first time, go to Hong Kong and spend two weeks in Aldeburgh to play concerts and have coaching sessions with the legendary violinist Hugh Maguire!
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Elias Quartet featured on BBC Music Magazine cover disc
Date of Story 12 February, Saturday, 2011
We are featured on this month’s BBC Music Magazine cover disc. We are playing Haydn’s extraordinary op.64:6 quartet, Schubert’s Quartettsatz and Mendelssohn’s viola quintet in B flat major op.87 with Malin Broman.