Endellion String Quartet

The first two concerts are part of the Cambridge 800 celebrations and include works by Judith Weir and two Cambridge Robins. Robin Orr was the Professor of Music who inspired and oversaw the building of the wonderful West Road concert hall for which we are so grateful. Robin Holloway has not only composed for us the six ‘Quartettini’ which we have been presenting throughout this year, but also a frame to the wonderful two movements Haydn composed as his last unfinished string quartet. We are also excited to be performing Mendelssohn’s great A minor quartet for the first time; and to be completing our surreptitious cycles of the three Brahms and the three Tchaikovsky quartets we have spread over three years. Both were offered honorary degrees by the University. We hope you will enjoy these works and all the many other delights we have concocted for the coming season.

The Endellion String Quartet is Quartet in Residence at the University of Cambridge.

The Endellion is arguably the finest quartet in Britain, playing with poise, true intonation, excellent balance and a beautiful tone. - The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Intonation, balance, rhythmic precision, subtleties of dynamics and colour: all were unimpeachable...Special glory lay in the Endellions’ light conversational tone. From the very first bar, every rhythmic nicety took on a lilt and sparkle. Graceful sighs, filigree dancing and jumping-jack rhythms dominated the middle movements. In the finale, melancholy weighed in on cue, but nothing could shake the music’s smile. A lovely performance. - The Times.