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New Generation Artists - a BBC scheme to nurture exceptional young talent

The BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme helps to support talented musicians to reach the next stages of their careers and brings some of the world’s most promising new talent to listeners across the UK through BBC Radio 3 broadcasts.

New Generation Artists: The Consone Quartet play Beethoven

The Consone Quartet play Beethoven

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The Consone Quartet plays Beethoven's String Quartet in G, Op 18 No 2.

The Consone Quartet plays Beethoven's String Quartet in G, Op 18 No 2, known as 'The quartet of bows and curtsies'.

BBC New Generation Artists: The Consone Quartet
The period instruments of the Consone Quartet bring a special colour and phrasing to the work sometimes known as 'the quartet of bows and curtsies’. Beethoven wrote this quartet at the time he was studying with Haydn.

Beethoven: String Quartet in G major, Op 18 No 2
Consone Quartet

[recorded live at Wigmore Hall in October 2020]

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