Schubert - String quartet no.10 in Eb major

Caroline Shaw - "Entr'acte"

Shostakovich - String Quartet no.2

The Carducci Quartet have been described by The Guardian as having"...high-octane playing, balanced control with devil-may-care spontaneity..." .They won a Royal Philharmonic Society award in 2016 for their project, Shostakovich15, an immense cycle of Shostakovich’s Quartets which they subsequently recorded. In the 50th anniversary year since Shostakovich’s death they perform his second string quartet which has many allusions to Russian folk music. Their programme also includes  a piece by the contemporary Pulitzer Prize winning American composer,  Caroline Shaw, and they open with Schubert’s lyrical  String Quartet No 2.