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The 8pm concert will also be streamed live online with KPlayer, tickets for this are available here. For information on how to use KPlayer please use our helpful guide or see the KPlayer FAQ.

A free digital programme for the concert can be viewed here.

‘The Brodskys’ ability to communicate on so many levels – humanity and virtuosity all part of the essential integrity of their approach…’ The Guardian

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.

The quartet complete the cycle with Beethoven’s Op. 130, the penultimate of the last quartets, and the most radical. In its six movement structure, the composer confronts his listeners with extremes: unison and dense polyphony, complexity and simplicity, propulsion and hesitation.

There is the famous Cavatina, which, according to the original second violinist Karl Holz, ‘brought out the confession that nothing he had written had so moved him’. Beethoven was persuaded to create a slighter ending than the ‘great fugue’ which originally closed the quartet (see concert on Thursday 19 March) and this witty Allegro is chosen here.

The recital is prefaced with one of Purcell’s Chaconnes.

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

Please note, the original date for this event was Thursday 02 April 2020.