| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 21-Mar-2012 Sage: Hall Two | The Belcea Quartet: Beethoven at the Sage Gateshead |
 Continuing their Beethoven cycle, the Belcea Quartet gave us another selection spanning Beethoven’s string quartet writing, allowing us to see how Beethoven transformed the medium from its elegant beginnings through to the complexity and expressiveness of his final works.
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| 24-Sep-2011 Dirleton Kirk | A Musical Journey I |
 A Musical Journey is, in effect, a bonsai version of the Lammermuir Festival: beautiful music, beautiful places and, on this particular occasion, beautiful weather. There were three concerts (one in each of East Lothian's most picturesque and acoustically blessed churches) and the day consisted of: journeys between venues through some of Scotland's most spectacular deciduous and harvest scenery; string quartet, harp and soprano timbres; programming which made sense both discretely and across the day featuring, Haydn, Beethoven, Britten and Menotti.Read full review... | |
| 8-Mar-2011 Chipping Sodbury Town Hall | Ardeton Ensemble with Stephen Meakins |
| The concert featured a chamber group based in the West Country, the Ardeton Ensemble. Sarah Eales and Rebecca Harte, violins, Rachel Johnson, viola and Dury Loveridge, cello, with guest pianist Stephen Meakins, gave a balanced and enthusiastically received programme of works by three major composers.
Beethoven’s first completed string quartet opened the evening. Already moving away from the classical constraints of Haydn and Mozart, the opening movement was played with a sure touch, the Adagio with evident emotion, the Scherzo all light and shade, and the Finale full of high spirits.
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