OPUS13

Beethoven String Quartet in D major, Op.18 No.3Thomas Adès Arcadiana, Op.12Brahms String Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op.51 No.1First Prize winners at both the 2025 Wigmore Hall and Bordeaux International String Quartet Competitions, Opus13 is rapidly building a reputation on the international chamber music scene.

All the works in the programme were the composers’ first string quartets.

Arriving in Vienna aged 21, Beethoven impressed his patron Prince Lobkowitz with his six Opus 18 quartets.

Brahms, wrestling with Beethoven’s legacy, published his first at the age of 40.

Adès draws inspiration from classical sources for his evocation of ‘vanishing idylls’ in ‘Arcadiana’.