Fitzwilliam String Quartet: Beethoven, Bray, Shostakovich
Sat 15 November 2025
Clare Hall Dining Hall
The Fitzwilliam Quartet open their series of three concerts with
Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18 No. 1, a work of youthful genius, its famous Adagio inspired by the tragic passion of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The programme continues with Charlotte Bray’s poignant 2022 work, ‘Ungrievable Lives’, a powerful meditation on the global refugee crisis, concluding with Shostakovich’s monumental Third Quartet, composed in the shadow of the Second World War.
Programme
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 1
Charlotte Bray Ungrievable Lives
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3
Cost: £5-20
