Daniel Kutschinski’s remarkable documentary lays bare the intense highs and lows of life as a string quartet – “a marriage for four” as it has often been called. No part of the Ébène’s touring life is off limits, and this backstage portrait is as complex and emotionally fraught as the music itself.

Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival 2015 – Best Documentary Award

“One of the finest, most sensitive films ever conceived about music” – Luís Gago, El País

“Watching 4 we encounter a tenderness that can only characterise a sensitive love story” – Yvonne Petitpierre, Deutschlandfunk

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Every year the Oxford Chamber Music Festival brings together some of the most exciting classical musicians in Europe to live and play together for a week. Creative sparks fly as the musicians change musical partners and master the widest variety of sound-worlds.

This year’s festival celebrates the infinite variety of music from the British Isles, across four centuries and four nations: from Celtic folk influences to English pastoral; from Renaissance fantasy to Radiohead; from the internationally-celebrated Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Britten to hidden treasures and exciting finds by composers you may not even have heard of – yet!

£8.20