Leonkoro Quartet

About this event

Thursday 3 December, 7.30pm 

1 hour 50 minutes including interval 

Djanogly Recital Hall 

£30 

Haydn                   String Quartet in D major,  

                                  Op.76, No.5, Hob III: 79 

Britten                  String Quartet No.3, Op.94 

Mendelssohn   String Quartet No.6 in F minor, Op.80 

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s death, the Leonkoro Quartet performs the third string quartet, completed in Venice a year before his death.  

Haydn’s Op.76 No.5 quartet features a particularly lyrical and heartfelt slow movement. Devastated with grief following the death of his sister, Mendelssohn’s Op.80 quartet veers between tenderness and anguish and was his final work before his own death.