The Rasumovsky Quartets
Continuing the series of great quartets Beethoven wrote for Count Rasumovsky.
Of the second movement, a friend wrote: The composer conceived the idea of this movement one night as he gazed up at the stars contemplating the spheres. The Lindsay Quartet Peter Cropper (violin) Ronald Birks (violin) Roger Bigley (viola)
Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello) play the String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2
Sound STUART STEVENSON Lighting JOHN BLACK
Producer MIKE NEWMAN
Series editor KEITH ALEXANDER BBC Scotland