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Access There is full wheelchair access to The Venue and disabled toilet facilities. Wheelchair users and companions may obtain two tickets for the price of one – details from the Box Office on 0113 224 3801.
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Booking opens 3 February: Priority booking period for existing subscribers to the Endellion String Quartet series. Please note that this is a separate subscription from the Evening Chamber (Dance!) series. 17 February: General booking opens.
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Join the Endellion String Quartet at The Venue this Spring/Summer for its popular annual residency. Formed in 1979, the Endellion String Quartet is renowned as one of the finest quartets in the world. Over the years, its schedule has included regular violin tours of North and South America and concerts in Australasia, the Far East, the Middle East, South Africa and every West European country. violin Everywhere, the Endellion String Quartet ‘sets the audience ablaze’ (Daily Telegraph) and ‘captivates concertgoers with a remarkable rapport, playing viola to each other with a sense almost of discovery, communicating to the audience on a level of unusual intimacy’ (The Guardian).
Andrew Watkinson Ralph de Souza
Garfield Jackson David Waterman
cello
In Britain, the Endellion String Quartet has appeared at nearly all of the major series and festivals and is regularly broadcast on BBC radio and television. In 1996 the quartet was winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Best Chamber Ensemble. Its various recordings have been named Chamber Music Recording of the Year by both the Daily Telegraph and The Guardian, Radio 3’s Critics’ Choice and Editor’s Choice at the Gramophone Awards. The Endellion String Quartet has been Quartet in Residence at Cambridge University since 1992 and has undertaken three short-term residencies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. Since 2001 it has been Associate Quartet of the Royal Northern College of Music and in 2003 began its Residency here at The Venue, Leeds.
The Endellion is arguably the finest quartet in Britain, playing with poise, true intonation, excellent balance and a beautiful tone. In music of the Viennese Classical composers it has few challengers but it has won praise in a wide repertory, its Beethoven and Bartók cycles being especially admired.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2000)
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Dear friends, we are delighted to be continuing our Residency at The Venue, Leeds, with another four wonderful programmes that we hope are unmissable.
Tuesday 22 April, 7.30pm
The vast repertoire of truly great masterworks for quartet is almost inexhaustible and probably the main reason for us being in our 35th year this season without feeling we are repeating ourselves.
Quartet No 6
Our staples Haydn and Beethoven are well represented this year, Haydn by his magnificent Op 76, No 1, one of our all-time favourites, and his Op 55, Nos 1 and 3 which are very little known but masterly and fascinating. Beethoven is represented by two of his Rasumovskys and his very last quartet. We are very happy to bring back our violist friend, David Adams, to join us in two exquisite Mozart quintets... his first and last. On top of this, we are presenting Bartók’s deeply expressive last quartet, written in exile in the USA, Schumann’s extraordinarily tender Romantic masterpiece, Britten’s scintillating and fresh first quartet, and Ravel’s only quartet which is a riot of colour and full of subtleties of sonority typical of this most refined of French composers. How astonishing that four closely-related string instruments can, in the hands of the great composers, create sound-worlds so utterly different and be so deeply and intimately expressive of such contrasting individual and towering personalities. David Waterman cellist, Endellion Quartet
Haydn Quartet Op 55, No 3
Bartók Beethoven Quartet Op 59, No 3
Tuesday 13 May, 7.30pm with special guest
David Adams viola
Mozart Quintet K174
Beethoven Quartet Op 135
Mozart Quintet K614
Tuesday 17 June, 7.30pm
Haydn Quartet Op 55, No 1
Britten Quartet No 1
Schumann Quartet No 3
Tuesday 15 July, 7.30pm
Haydn Quartet Op 76, No 1
Ravel Quartet
Beethoven Quartet Op 59, No 1
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