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Beethoven: The Late Quartets

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This week, on consecutive evenings, The Aeolian Quartet play the complete cycle of Beethoven's Late String Quartets (Op 127-135) - his crowning achievement, unsurpassed in their variety, originality and expressive power. Tonight
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) begin the series with Quartet in E flat, Op 127
A musical treat of the greatest possible Value. (SEAN DAY-LEWIS , DAILY TELEGRAPH) Wonderfullu successful
(PETER LENNON, SUNDAY TINIES)
Lighting SAM BRANTER
' Sound JEFF BAKER
Director RODNEY greenbehg (Tomorrow : Quartet in B flat, Op 130)
BBC Music Guides: Beethoven String Quartets, Books 1 and 2, 70p each, from bookshops

Contributors

Violin:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Violin:
Raymond Keenlyside
Cello:
Derek Simpson
Unknown:
Sean Day-Lewis
Unknown:
Sam Branter
Unknown:
Jeff Baker
Director:
Rodney Greenbehg
Source: Radio Times

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