Carducci String Quartet

To mark the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s death, the Carducci will play three quartets from different moments in his career: the luminously
exuberant Op. 18, No. 1; Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ (‘Oh, life is so beautiful, but for me it is poisoned forever’); and Op. 59, No. 2, one of the group of pieces commissioned by Count Razumovsky (‘Beethoven was, as it were, cock of the walk in the [Count’s] princely establishment; everything that he composed was rehearsed hot from the griddle and performed to the nicety of a hair’).