The Elias String Quartet is celebrated for its deep musical understanding and bold performances. Their ability to convey profound musical meaning, especially across entire quartet cycles, has made them a fixture in the world’s most prestigious concert halls and festivals. They recently toured with a complete Beethoven quartet cycle which they have also recorded. As the finale of the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society’s 25/26, the Elias quartet present an all-Beethoven programme, celebrating the composer’s genius at writing breathtaking, dramatic works for the string quartet. The programme opens with Quartet No.12 in E flat major, one of the last pieces the composer completed before his death, followed by the second of his middle period Opus 59 quartets. Commissioned by Count Razumovsky, these are considered to have been a revolution in music written for the quartet – so completely original that in one stroke they redefined the entire paradigm of the quartet genre.

Elias Quartet

The Stoller Hall

“Poetic, charismatic and virtuosic” (Sunday Telegraph), this London foursome combines youthful élan with a musical intelligence beyond their years. The Elias’s PCMS return promises “playing of wonderful exuberance and fire” (The Guardian) and insights gleaned from their ambitious “Beethoven Project” at Wigmore Hall in which the group performed the complete Beethoven string quartets to widespread acclaim.

Elias Quartet

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Elias Quartet

Elias Quartet