| Donnerstag, 8. April 2027 | 18:00 |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) | Streichquartett Nr. 15 in a-Moll, Op.132 | |
| Shaw, Caroline (b. 1982) | Valencia |
| Philharmonia Chamber Players | |
| Rebecca Chan | Violine |
| David López Ibañez | Violine |
| Cameron Campbell | Viola |
| Silvestrs Kalniņš | Cello |
Composed following a severe disease, Beethoven’s penultimate string quartet oscillates between optimism and grief.
Listen out for the third movement, the ‘Holy Song of Thanksgiving’, for some of Beethoven’s most serene and vulnerable music, where his use of an archaic, Church-influenced tonal scale juxtaposes his unyielding sense of physical introspection and survival.
TS Eliot was so moved by Beethoven’s work that it inspired his poetic masterpiece Four Quartets, a meditation on human spirit, suffering, and the everlasting.
The ageless, eternal themes of Eliot’s poem, where ‘time future [is] contained in time past’, flows through this concert. Premiered almost two centuries after Beethoven’s quartet, Caroline Shaw’s Valencia concludes this programme, and the Philharmonia’s chamber season.
Pop in just for this 45-minute concert, or stay to hear more Beethoven in his irrepressible Symphony No.7, conducted by Manfred Honeck at 7.30pm in Beethoven 7 & Macmillan’s Veni, Veni, Emmanuel.
Free entry
