The Program

Haydn: Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1
Turnage: Twisted Blues with Twisted Ballad [Phila. Premiere] 
Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 w/ Grosse Fugue, Op. 133

The Artists

The London-based Belcea Quartet has gained an enviable reputation as one of the leading quartets of the new generation. Established at the Royal College of Music in 1994, they have since worked with the Chilingirian, Amadeus and Alban Berg Quartets, and were resident quartet at Wigmore Hall from 2001 to 2006.  Today the Belcea Quartet is the Associate Ensemble at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and Quartet in Residence at the Atheneum Concert Hall in Bucharest.  The Belcea won the Gramophone Award for best debut recording in 2001 and, more recently, their recording of the complete Bartók quartets saw them named Chamber Music Ensemble of the Year by Germany's Echo Klassik Awards.  Other recordings include Schubert quartets, Brahms’ String Quartet Op. 51, No. 1 and second String Quintet with Thomas Kakuska, Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson with Ian Bostridge, Schubert’s Trout Quintet with Thomas Adès and Corin Long, a double disc of Britten’s string quartets, Mozart’s “Dissonance” and “Hoffmeister” quartets.  For more information on the Belcea Quartet, visit their www.belceaquartet.com.