East Neuk Festival - Opus 13-1

Shaw: Entr’acte

Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130 (Grosse Fuge)

These exceptional young artists, were prize winners at the Banff International String Quartet Competition 2022, awarded the prestigious Equinor Classical Music Award which goes to musical ‘heroes of tomorrow’. Previous winners include Leif Ove Andsnes, Truls Mørk and Vilde Frang. They are at the festival to play four concerts, opening with this titanic masterpiece of the genre. Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge is a work that inspires the greatest minds to superlatives: which together with the Hammerklavier sonata that they play later in the festival, is Beethoven at his most immense and astonishing. The quartet pair it with one of the most popular quartets of recent years, Shaw’s brief but very memorable ‘Entr’acte’.