Banstead Arts Festival Society
Presents DANTE QUARTET in Concert
HAYDN: String Quartet in D, Op 64 no 5, 'The Lark'
BRITTEN: String Quartet No 3, Op 94
DVORAK: String Quartet in F, Op 96, 'American'
Winner of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for best chamber ensemble in 2007, and of the BBC Music Magazine Award for chamber music in 2009, the Dante Quartet is known for the emotional intensity of its performances. The programme has as its centrepiece Britten's death-haunted last quartet, sandwiched on either side by two celebrated nicknamed quartets by Haydn and Dvorak, each of them full of high spirits and melodic charm.