Name: Fitzwilliam String Quartet: Beethoven, Bray, Shostakovich
Start: 2025-11-15T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-15T21:30:00+00:00
Location: Clare Hall Dining Hall, University of Cambridge

Fitzwilliam String Quartet: Beethoven, Bray, Shostakovich

The Fitzwilliam Quartet open their series of three concerts with works by Beethoven, Charlotte Bray, and Shostakovich.
About this Event

The Fitzwilliam Quartet open their series of three concerts with

Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18 No. 1, a work of youthful genius, its famous Adagio inspired by the tragic passion of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The programme continues with Charlotte Bray’s poignant 2022 work, ‘Ungrievable Lives’, a powerful meditation on the global refugee crisis, concluding with Shostakovich’s monumental Third Quartet, composed in the shadow of the Second World War.

Programme

Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 1

Charlotte Bray Ungrievable Lives

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3