NEXT AVAILABILITY: March 14-April 11, 2013.
(Between Mar 27-Apr 11 they will also be available with or without Jonathan Biss)
Elias String Quartet playing
Mendelssohn Quartet Op. 80
News
17 May, 2011
The Beethoven Project is underway!
The Elias String Quartet is learning the complete Beethoven quartets, and has launched a website where listeners can join them on their journey. They will present the cycle in various formats in venues across the country over the next four years. "We hope this gives us enough time and space to immerse ourselves in the music and present the programmes to as wide an audience as possible. It also enables us to develop this website both as a personal account of our experiences and as a broader educational resource,” expains violinist Donald Grant.
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Press Highlights
“This immensely talented string quartet has the rare quality of unforced spontaneity.”
--The Sunday Telegraph (London)
“Magic moments abound…[an] ability to live and breathe each phrase with an enraptured sensitivity.”
--The Strad
“The Elias is the best young quartet I’ve come across in years … There were times during the Kings Place concerts when the Elias’s first violin, Sara Bitlloch, with her soaring confidence, dazzling high register, rhythmic energy and, above all, beautiful portamenti (slides between notes), brought Menuhin’s playing to mind.”
--The Sunday Times (London)
“Many think this young quartet will be the next Amadeus, and these performances support such a view. Their mutual rapport is obvious and their performance of Mozart’s ‘Dissonance’ Quartet (K. 465) reveals a deep affinity with the composer.”
--Sunday Telegraph (London)
“The musicianship of this young quartet is irresistible.”
--The Observer (London)