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Edinburgh International Festival

Great String Quartets at Edinburgh

Pavel Haas Quartet

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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The Pavel Haas Quartet perform Brahms's Second String Quartet, alongside Erwin Schulhoff's lively folk-influenced Quartet No 1 and a late chamber work by Shostakovich. From 2014. Show more

Edinburgh International Festival

Great String Quartets at Edinburgh

Quatuor Mosaïques

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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Period instrument string quartet, the Quatuor Mosaïques, perform the final works for string quartet by Mozart and Beethoven at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh at the 1999 festival. Show more

Edinburgh International Festival

Great String Quartets at Edinburgh

Takács Quartet

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

The internationally renowned Takács Quartet at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival perform personal works by Janacek and Smetana alongside the second of Beethoven's Rasumovsky quartets. Show more

Edinburgh International Festival

Great String Quartets at Edinburgh

Arditti Quartet

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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The Arditti Quartet at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival perform Janáček alongside works by Xenakis and Nancarrow inspired by mathematics and jazz. Show more

Edinburgh International Festival

Great String Quartets at Edinburgh

Chiaroscuro Quartet

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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From the Queen's Hall during the 2017 Edinburgh Festival, the Chiaroscuro Quartet led by international soloist Alina Ibragimova perform Bach, Haydn and Schubert on gut strings. Show more