Sini Simonen | Daniel Roberts violin
Natalie Loughran viola
Steffan Morris cello
The first Hans Keller String Quartet in Residence at the University of Oxford, Castalian Quartet returns with three notable works: a Mendelssohn quartet rife with nimble variations; Dvořák’s string quartet arrangement of his earlier work of 12 love songs based on Moravsky’s poems Cypresses; and last — but certainly not least — Beethoven’s very favorite of his own quartets, an eternally contemporary work written one year before his death. Upon first hearing it, Schubert profoundly concluded: “After this, what is left for us to write?”
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