BENJAMIN BRITTEN

 

String Quartets Nos 2 & 3, Three Divertimenti

 

Elias String Quartet

 

String Quartet no. 2 in C, op. 36

1.         I.   Allegro calmo senza rigatore

2.         II   Vivace

3.         III  Chacony: Sostenuto

 

Three Divertimenti

4.         I    March

5.         II   Waltz

6.         III  Burlesque

 

String Quartet no. 3, op. 94

7.         I    Duets

8.         II   Ostinato

9.         III  Solo

10.        IV Burlesque

 

 

“The Elias is the best young quartet I’ve come across in years.”  Paul Driver, Sunday Times, Nov. 2009

The Quartet was formed in 1998 at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, working regularly with the late Dr. Christopher Rowland, and subsequently studying at the Hochschule in Cologne with the Alban Berg quartet.

The Quartet received second prize and the Sidney Griller prize at the 9th London International String Quartet Competition in 2003 and were finalists in the Paolo Borciani Competition in 2005.

The Elias String Quartet have performed extensively in the UK, at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Snape Maltings, Kettle’s Yard, Bridgewater Hall, Turner Sims and Fairfield Halls.  They have also toured widely, playing at the Stockholm Concert Hall, the Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, and Jordan Hall, Boston, as well as in Germany, Austria, Italy, Australia and the USA.  The Quartet have broadcast live on national radio in the UK, France, Australia and Sweden.

 

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