The multi-Grammy award-winning Emerson Quartet presents the transparent beauty of Beethoven's Harp quartet, along with Mendelssohn's earliest and last works in this genre.
Perenial Festival favourite Christian Zacharias is completely at home showing the full range of his virtuosity in this programme of works by Haydn, Brahams and Scarlatti.
The concert includes Beethoven's towering achievement Grosse Fuge, Webern's delightful Bagatelles opus 9 and Schoenberg's String Quartet No 2, the quartet being joined by soprano Barbara Hannigan.
The esteemed Arditti Quartet embarks on a musical journey from Beethoven through seminal works by Webern and Schoenberg to contemporary masterpieces by Ligeti and Dutilleux.
James MacMillan's cantata for choir and strings has become one of the composer's most loved works, for which the Ensemble is joined by chamber choir Tenebrae.
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