Elias String Quartet

Video from the recording of the Bach CD

Martin — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:58:41 +0000

Watch a video from the recording of the Bach CD with Xuefei Yang by clicking here!

New CD

Martin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:34:30 +0000

Our new CD has just been released. On it we play Haydn’s Op. 64:6 quartet together with Schumann’s first quartet. The programme is rounded off with an encore composed by Donald. The concert was recorded live at the Wigmore Hall.

Back from the USA

Martin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:14:12 +0000

We have just returned from a wonderfully intense tour of Canada and USA. We played in Vancouver, Middlebury, Philadelphia, San Juan (Puerto Rico) and we made our debuts at the Library of Congress in Washington DC and Carnegie Hall in New York. We were met with fantastic hospitality by organisers and audience.

2 July, Monday, 2012

Martin — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:18:02 +0000

When 2 July 2012 - All Ages Where Chester (map) Chester, UK Other Infowww.chesterfestivals.co.uk « Back to the calendar

Haydn, Sibelius and Dvorak in the Wigmore Hall

Martin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:55:25 +0000

Our next Wigmore Hall programme will include Haydn’s famous 54:2 quartet and Sibelius’ ”Voces Intimae”. The latter is not very often heard in the UK, although it is one of the most important quartet works of the 20th century. Composed the same year as Bartok’s first quartet, it looks, in certain aspects, forward to a style that would characterise this composer’s later style. We will finish off with Dvorak’s exuberant piano quintet with the extraordinary American pianist Jonathan Biss. Welcome on the 1st of March!

New CD

Martin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:06:37 +0000

We have just released a new CD where we are playing together with the wonderful guitarist Xuefei Yang. The repertoire is Bach concertos, transcribed especially for the guitar by Xuefei!

Playing with a legend

Martin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:20:26 +0000

We will have the great honour to play the Brahms Piano Quintet with one of the foremost pianists of our time, Leon Fleischer, in two upcoming concerts: the first in Basingstoke and the second in Wigmore Hall. The Wigmore Hall concert will be broadcast live on BBC 3.

Leon Fleischer studied with Artur Schnabel, and is thus part of a piano tradition handed down from Beethoven himself. Do come along to this rare opportunity to hear a truly legendary musician.

The Basingstoke concert is on the 28th of January and the Wigmore concert on the 30th.

Also on the programme is Webern’s wonderfully romantic “Langsamer Satz”, and in Basingstoke, Beethoven’s Op. 18:6 quartet.

7 December, Friday, 2012

Martin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:11:49 +0000

When 7 December 2012 - All Ages Where St George's Bristol (map) Bristol, UK Other InfoSt George's Bristol BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in A major op. 18 no.5 BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in C major op.59 no.3 'Rasumovsky' BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in C sharp minor op.131 « Back to the calendar

2 December, Sunday, 2012

Martin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:10:03 +0000

When 2 December 2012 - All Ages Where John Innes Centre (map) Norwich, UK Other InfoJohn Innes Centre, Norwich BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in A major op. 18 no.5 BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in C major op.59 no.3 'Rasumovsky' INTERVAL BEETHOVEN: String Quartet Op.131 « Back to the calendar

1 December, Saturday, 2012

Martin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:08:52 +0000

When 1 December 2012 - All Ages Where Tonbridge (map) Tonbridge, UK Other InfoTonbridge School BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in A major op. 18 no.5 BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in C major op.59 no.3 'Rasumovsky' INTERVAL BEETHOVEN: String Quartet Op.131 « Back to the calendar