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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: The Elias String Quartet

The Elias String Quartet

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, The Elias String Quartet

Live from London's Wigmore Hall, the Elias String Quartet play Haydn and Mendelssohn.

Live concert from London's Wigmore Hall, the Elias String Quartet play Haydn and Mendelssohn.

Live from London's Wigmore Hall: the Elias String Quartet play Haydn and Mendelssohn.

Named after Mendelssohn's oratorio, Elijah, the Elias Quartet promises to give a deeply penetrating performance of Mendelssohn's hommage to Beethoven.   
Although written when he was still a teenager, the A minor quartet is a work of astonishing maturity, revealing his fascination for the late quartets of Beethoven which so perplexed his contemporaries, not least Mendelssohn's own father.   
Presented by Martin Handley. 

Haydn: String Quartet in E flat op. 64 no.6
Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A minor Op.13

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