BBC Proms 2020 Season - Proms Chamber Music: Apollon Musagète Quartet [2015] (320kbps. Mp3)

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.

Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Apollon Musagète Quartet present the European premiere of the Fifth String Quartet by one of Britain’s foremost living composers, Colin Matthews. Commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the Tanglewood Festival in 2015, the piece remains the last work Matthews has written in the medium.

Bookending the Quartet are Webern’s youthful Langsamer Satz – an ecstatic piece that showcases the composer’s formal skill within a lyrical idiom – and Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18 No. 3. Of Beethoven’s six Op. 18 quartets, No. 3 is both the lightest and the hardest to pin down: the scherzo is fleeting, and even the framing movements have an unusual delicacy and wistfulness about them.


01. Webern - Langsamer Satz
01a. Introduction to Webern’s Langsamer Satz
02. Matthews, Colin - String Quartet No. 5 (European premiere)
02a. Introduction to Matthews’ String Quartet No. 5
03. Beethoven - String Quartet in D major, Op. 18 No. 3
03a. Introduction to Beethoven’s String Quartet in D major

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.


First broadcast:  BBC Proms 2015, 3 August


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