Nicola Benedetti Violin
Anna-Liisa Bezrodny Violin
Benjamin Gilmore Viola
Leonard Elschenbroich Cello
Alexei Grynyuk Piano

Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor Op 25
Shostakovich Piano Quintet

Acclaimed violinist Nicola Benedetti is held in wide admiration as one of Britain’s finest young musicians. She gathers an ensemble of her regular collaborators – each performer a respected soloist in their own right – for a special Festival recital contrasting two masterpieces of the chamber repertoire.

Brahms’s G minor Piano Quartet bustles with infectious melody, and concludes with a famously fiery gypsy rondo finale. Shostakovich’s powerful Piano Quintet was written in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, and its accessible but distinctive music ranges from poignant introspection to biting satire.

it was thrilling to hear and watch Nicola Benedetti

The Times

This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.