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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Elias Quartet Beethoven Cycle

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Elias Quartet Beethoven Cycle: Episode 1

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Episode 1

Elias Quartet Beethoven Cycle

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The Elias Quartet perform Beethoven's String Quartet, Op 18 No 1, and Quintet, Op 29.

The Elias Quartet and Malin Broman (viola) in a performance given at All Saints Church in Brighton. Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1; String Quintet in C, Op 29.

For the last three years, the Elias Quartet have been devoting their time to a complete concert cycle of the Beethoven quartets, which they have performed at venues up and down the country. The first instalment was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 over the Christmas-New Year period last year; now, in this second part, broadcast throughout this week on Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, they bring the project to a conclusion.

Beethoven: String Quartet in F major Op 18 No 1
Beethoven String Quintet in C major, Op 29
Elias Quartet with Malin Broman (viola)
(Recorded last May at All Saints Church, Brighton, as part of the 2014 Brighton Festival).

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Part of the Elias Quartet's complete concert cycle of the Beethoven quartets

Series of programmes featuring part of the Elias Quartet's complete concert cycle of the Beethoven quartets

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