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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: East Neuk Festival 2015

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: East Neuk Festival 2015: Episode 2: Brentano Quartet

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Brentano Quartet

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Episode 2: Brentano Quartet

East Neuk Festival 2015

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Brentano Quartet in Britten's String Quartet No 3 and Mendelssohn's String Quartet No 1.

The Brentano Quartet performs at the 2015 East Neuk Festival in Fife. Britten: String Quartet No 3. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No 1 in E flat, Op 12.

The Brentano Quartet bring a programme of great contrast to the East Neuk Festival in Fife. Mendelssohn's youthful and sunny first quartet written when he was barely out of his teenage years is paired with Britten's third and final quartet, a work of incredible contrasts and colours considered to be one of his finest masterpieces. Its final movement entitled 'La Serenissima' quotes directly from his opera 'Death in Venice'. It was written while the composer was in Venice and is a meditation on mortality.

Britten: String Quartet No.3
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No.1 in E flat, Op.12

Brentano Quartet.

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Concerts given in East Neuk in Fife as part of the 2015 East Neuk Festival

Series of concerts given in the many picturesque villages of East Neuk in Fife, as part of the 2015 East Neuk Festival

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