Haydn String Quartet in C major Op 33 No 3 ‘Bird’
Bartók String Quartet No 3
Beethoven Quartet in F major Op 59 No 1 ‘Razumovsky’

With its astonishingly fresh, sometimes surprising performances, the Cuarteto Casals has quickly established itself as one of the world’s most compelling younger chamber ensembles – and one of the most respected. Blending passionate expressiveness with elegant sophistication, the Barcelona-based players bring immaculate technique to their searching, searing insights.

They have focused strongly on the exhilarating quartets of Beethoven throughout their career and they close their wide-ranging International Festival recital with the grand dramas and hearty good humour of his final ‘Razumovsky’ quartet.

They open with the magical radiance and avian inspirations of Haydn’s witty ‘Bird’ Quartet. In between, the intense emotions of Bartók’s brief but punchy Third Quartet.