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17 Masterpieces. A Journey.
A Celebration.

Between 2011 and 2015 we will explore and perform these masterpieces.

Find out more about the project here…

Exploring Beethoven’s quartets: Misha Donat writes about Op.18:2, Op.127 and Op.59:1

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Music producer, musicologist and writer Misha Donat writes about programme three in our Beethoven Project

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Op130 1st movement at Wigmore Hall

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Watch our performance of the opening movement of Op.130 performed at Wigmore Hall on 16 December 2011.

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Beethoven’s new emotional language

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How Beethoven changed the musical emotional language

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Latest Audio

Podcast with Edward Seckerson
Beethoven String Quartet Op.18 No.1 (2nd movement)
Mozart String Quartet K.465 “Dissonance”(1st movement)
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The Beethoven Project timeline
  • December 2012

    Cycle begins in Bristol
  • May 2013

    3-concert residency at Brighton Festival
  • The Beethoven Project
  • December 2012

    Cycle starts in Norwich
  • December 2012

    Cycle starts in Tonbridge
  • November 2012

    Concert in Reading

    BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in A major op. 18 no.5
    BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in C major op.59 no.3 ‘Rasumovsky’
    INTERVAL
    BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in C sharp minor op.131

  • November 2012

    Cycle starts in Southampton
  • November 2012

    Concert in Whitehaven

    BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in A major op. 18 no. 5

    BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in C major op. 59 no. 3 ‘Rasumovsky’

    INTERVAL

    BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in C sharp minor op. 131

  • November 2012

    Cycle starts in Whitehaven
  • November 2012

    Cycle starts in Oxford
  • November 2012

    Cycle starts in Oxford