Puertas Quartet

Kaitaia

Tchaikovsky

String Quartet No 1 in D

Ravel

String Quartet in F

Keith Statham (born 1934)

Pastorale

Schubert

String Quartet in D minor D810 'Death and the Maiden'

In this programme, one of the greatest impressionist works ever written, Ravel's Quartet in F is contrasted with Tchaikovsky’s gorgeous First Quartet, containing the famous Andante Cantabile movement, which reportedly made Leo Tolstoy cry the first time he heard it performed. The programme finishes with Schubert’s darkly brooding 'Death and the Maiden' Quartet.