Christ Church Cathedral are delighted to welcome one of the world’s great string quartets, the Quatuor Ébène, to this year’s Oxford Chamber Music festival, where they will also lead masterclasses for young ensembles. They pay tribute to “these enchanted isles” in Britten’s brilliant and precocious portraits of three schoolfriends, and in Thomas Adès’ idyllic O Albion, with its homage to Elgar’s Nimrod (and behind that masterpiece, late Beethoven). Haydn’s glorious ‘Sunrise’ almost anticipates late Beethoven in its moving adagio, alongside one of Haydn’s most exhilarating finales. Finally Beethoven himself contributes his wild, epic, and “forever contemporary” Great Fugue.

Haydn ‘Sunrise’ quartet op.76 no.4 | Britten Three divertimenti | Adès O Albion, from Arcadiana op.12 | Beethoven Grosse Fuge op.133

This concert is generously supported by James Malcomson.

£40/Restricted View £10/Under 18s and Students FREE but require a ticket

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