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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Aris Quartet

Aris Quartet

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From London's Wigmore Hall, the Aris Quartet plays Mendelssohn, Schulhoff and Kurtág.

Members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, the Aris Quartet performs Mendelssohn's String Quartet in D, Op 44, alongside works by Schulhoff and Kurtág.

One of the most exciting ensembles of their generation -  and current members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme - the Aris Quartet performs Mendelssohn's sunny, life-enhancing Quartet Op 44 No 1, preceded by Schulhoff's neoclassical Five Pieces for String Quartet, a dance suite looking back to the Baroque through a modernist lens. Completing the programme, Kurtág's Officium breve, written in memory of fellow Hungarian composer Andreæ Szervánszky, who was given the "Righteous among the Nations" award to honour non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis.

Recorded at London's Wigmore Hall, October 2021
Presented by Hannah French

Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet
Kurtág: Officium breve in memoriam Andreæ Szervánszky for String Quartet 
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No 3 in D, Op 44 No 1

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