Elias String Quartet
Programme
HENRY PURCELL (1659?–1695)
Fantasia No. 8 in D minor, Z 739
Fantasia No. 10 in E minor, Z 741
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856)
String Quartet in A minor, op. 41/1
Andante espressivo – Allegro
Scherzo: Presto
Adagio
Presto
Intermission
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828)
String Quartet in A minor, D 804 »Rosamunde«
Allegro ma non troppo
Andante
Menuetto (Allegretto) with trio
Allegro moderato
Encores:
»Da Dag Dawn« (Traditional)
»Calvin's Road« (Donald Shaw)
Artists
Elias String Quartet
Sara Bitlloch (violin)
Donald Grant (violin)
Simone van der Giessen (viola)
Marie Bitlloch (violoncello)
»One of the most successful and distinguished classical music festival in the world now for almost 50 years, this Austrian Alpine festival presents Lieder recitals and chamber music concerts revolving around the great Viennese composer and his contemporaries.«
Gramophone, Großbritannien