London Haydn Quartet
The London Haydn Quartet
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We welcome home one of the world’s leading period instrument string quartets. They were born out of a passion for Haydn, and continue to make critically acclaimed recordings on the Hyperion label and tour extensively - they’re coming to us hot-footed from a tour of Japan & Singapore. On the menu is Haydn’s Op 64, 1,3 and 6, as the quartet prepare to record the entire Op 64 in December.
Tickets £12, Students £10.
The musicians imbued both works with myriad details of shading and contrast, and beautifully calibrated phrasing
New York Times, January 2014.
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The London Haydn Quartet
Recent highlights this season for the London Haydn Quartet have included a series of five concerts in Germany and a tour in the USA with concerts in Atlanta, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Milwaukee and finishing at Yale University. Recording update: The next volume (op 54/55) in the Haydn series with Hyperion has been released to an enthusiastic reception with The Guardian writing: "Too many pleasures to enumerate. Try for yourself".
One of the world’s leading period instrument string quartets, The London Haydn Quartet was born out of a passion for Haydn. they have received invitations to many of the most important concert series in UK, USA, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland. The London Haydn Quartet’s series of recordings of Haydn’s quartets on the Hyperion label (the op 9, op 17, op 20, op 33, op 50 and op 54/55 quartets to date) have met with international critical acclaim.
The quartet has given recitals of all-Haydn programmes at New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Cheltenham Festival, Utrecht Festival, Bath Mozartfest, Klara Festival the Granada International Festival and at Haydn festivals in Esterhazy, Lincoln and Lyon and the English Haydn Festival.
In collaboration with period clarinettist Eric Hoeprich with whom they also recorded the Brahms and Mozart quintets on the Glossa label, their recent concerts have included a tour of the USA and Canada including a recital at the Library of Congress, and appearances in Serbia, Switzerland, France, Germany and the Czech Republic.
Last season's highlights include the quartet's Australian debut with performances at the Melbourne Festival and the Sydney Opera House and a return to Canada for a series of concerts across the country. This summer the quartet will give a series of five concerts at the Berlioz Festival in La Côte-Saint-André and in the Autumn they will appear in Singapore and Japan.