A welcome return visit from Britain’s leading period-instrument quartet, renowned for its historically informed performances of music around 1800 using the beautiful sonority of gut strings. The play three masterpieces of Viennese music. The most original of the great set of quartets Mozart dedicated to Haydn is famous for its audacious dissonances. Haydn’s op. 76, no. 6, the last of his very last set of quartets, looks simultaneously back to the Baroque and forward to late Beethoven. Beethoven’s own Grosse Fuge or Great Fugue, written in 1826, was so revolutionary it was only fully accepted in the twentieth century; for Glenn Gould it was ‘just about the most astonishing piece in musical literature’. Wivenhoe’s beautiful, newly restored church is the perfect venue for a memorable evening of chamber music.

‘a formidable quartet, whose virtuosity is matched by their insightful attention to every detail’ Early Music Review

Tickets: £18 reserved SOLD OUT; £14 unreserved (half-price for those under 30)