from the Pittville
Pump Room,
Cheltenham.
One of the features of this year's festival are the Beethoven Mornings - the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets combined with British quartets that have been premiered at the festival over the last 50 years.
Today the Franz Schubert Quartet of Vienna play Rawsthorne's Second
Quartet, written for the Cheltenham Festival and first performed there in 1954, sandwiched between two Beethoven quartets. Beethoven
String Quartet in G, Opl8No2 Rawsthome
String Quartet No 2
11.50 Heroic Musicology Jan Smaczny takes a quizzical look at Beethoven and his three periods.
12.10pm Beethoven String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2 (Rasumovsky)
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