Performer: Carducci String Quartet

A tasting menu of string quartet movements interspersed with readings made for an absorbing afternoon. 

Song cycles by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ernest Chausson are paired at the Barbican.

Performed chronologically in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, The Globe’s candlelit Jacobean theatre, the 15 Shostakovich string quartets made an astonishing impression in such concentrated form.