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In this special anniversary series, the acclaimed Brodsky Quartet perform Beethoven’s late string quartets, one at a time, lovingly set up with musical preludes.

This recital begins with a prayer, which violinist Henning Kraggerud composed for the Brodsky Quartet, a pre-echo of the famous prayer at the heart of Op. 132, written by Beethoven following a bout of intestinal inflammation. ‘A convalescent’s holy song of thanksgiving to the Deity’ employs an old church mode and breathes a mystic serenity. This is exploded by an aggressive march interspersed with impassioned operatic recitative from the first violin.

As Nietzsche wrote: ‘Whosoever has built a new Heaven has found strength for it only in his own Hell.’

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Please note this concert will last approximately 50 mins and there will be no interval.

The Brodsky Quartet performed the ‘Cavatina’ from Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130 at the 2017 Prinsengrachtconcert in Amsterdam: