Sunday, 2 March 2025
7.30pm, Kelso Old Parish Church, TD5 7BH
Quatuor Agate
Haydn
String Quartet in Eb op 33 no 2
Korngold
String Quartet no 3 in D op 34
Dvorak
String Quartet no 13 in G op 106
Formed in 2016, Paris-based Quatuor Agate studied in Paris, Berlin and Munich. YCAT Artists since 2021 they were named ECHO Rising Stars in 2023, enabling them to perform in major concert halls across Europe in the 2024-2025 season. Scottish audiences may be familiar with their wonderful concerts in consecutive years at the Lammermuir Festival. In 2016 they founded the CorsiClassic Festival with a mission to bring chamber music to areas of Corsica where it is rarely heard.
£16.00
'The Quatuor Agate filled the church with gorgeously warm tone for Haydn's C major op 20 quartet, slipping easily from the soulful intensity of the dark second movement into the lightness of the finale'
The Times
'They tore through the drama of the First Quartet with thrilling precision, investing it with all the psychological intensity and driving power that it deserves.....'
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