Edinburgh Quartet

Queen's Hall Series 2003 - 2004

All concerts start at 2.30pm.
Tickets: £9/£6 concessions. £2.50 students and schoolchildren.
Reductions for series subscriptions available from the box office.
The Queen's Hall Box Office, Clerk Street, Edinburgh tel: 0131 668 2019

The Quartet's main Edinburgh series (also to be promoted in Glasgow in 2004/5), these concerts concentrate upon Haydn's complete Opus 50, six quartets from the 1950s (the decade of the Edinburgh Quartet's foundation), and six other big pieces.

more: Quartet takes a Fifties Turn

18 April 2004

• Haydn: Quartet in F Op 50 No 5
• Leighton: Quartet No 2 (1957)
• Brahms: Quintet in F minor Op 34
  (with Deirdre Cooper, cello)
  (Deirdre Cooper's parents were 1st/2nd violins of the New Edinburgh Quartet, our precursor)

21 March 2004

• Haydn: Quartet in F sharp minor Op 50 No 4
• Enescu: Quartet No 2 (1951)
• Dvorak: Quartet in A flat Op 105

08 February 2004

• Haydn: Quartet in C Op 50 No 2
• Seiber: Quartet No 3 'Quartetto Lyrico' (1953)
• Elgar: Quartet in E minor Op 83

11 January 2004

• Haydn: Quartet Op 50 in D No 6
• Simpson: Quartet No 2 (1953)
• Schubert: Quartet in A minor D.810 'Rosamunde'
  - - - you can read a review of this concert

23 November 2003

• Haydn: Quartet in E flat Op 50 No 3
• Rubbra: Quartet No 2 Op 73 (1950)
• Brahms: Quartet in B flat Op 67
  - - - you can read a review of this concert
  - - - you can read another review of this concert

19 October 2003

• Haydn: Quartet in B flat Op 50 No1
• Shostakovich: Quartet No 5 Op 92 (1951)
• Dvorak: Quintet in G Op 77
  (with Adrian Bornet, bass)