Echéa String Quartet

• Haydn – Quartet op. 74 no. 1 in C major
• Bartok – Quartet no. 6
• Beethoven – Quartet op. 59 no.1 “Rasumovsky”

Bartok’s most accessible quartet contrasts with two standard-bearers from the classical era.

Built as the Bartok 6th quartet is out of the hauntingly desolate, beautiful opening viola solo, which meets with cynical violence and undisguised parody of the Nazi march across Europe at the end of the 1930s (which caused Bartok to emigrate to the United States), one might be tempted to sense parallels with current European events, eight decades later.

The multi-award-winning Echéa Quartet was formed in 2017 at the Royal Academy of Music.