Werk: String Quartet no. 64 in D major, Op.76 no. 5, Hob III:79

After decades as a period instrument revolutionary, the 87-year old conductor bows out with “Dr Haydn's London Academy”, an entertaining recreation of concert-going in the 1790s.

Invité de la Biennale, le jeune Quatuor Goldmund exacerbe les reliefs des quatuors de Haydn et Mendelssohn. Une création française de Dobrinka Tabakova apporte une lumière bienvenue sur ce programme classique.

The classical masterpieces of Haydn and Schubert miss the spot, but Ligeti and Poulenc enthral in the splendid setting of the Concert Room, St George’s Hall, Liverpool.