Chamber Music Series - Esposito Quartet

Esposito Quartet
Mia Cooper violin
Anna Cashell violin
Joachim Roewer viola
William Butt cello

Beethoven  String Quartet in A major Op.18 No.5
Paul Frost  An Old Song, Half Forgotten
Janáček  In the Mists (arr. Tomáš Ille) 
Wolf  Italian Serenade

The Esposito Quartet, one of our most distinguished and long-standing string quartets, opens with Beethoven’s light-hearted A major quartet. Modelled on Mozart’s A major quartet K464 written just 15 years earlier, it features an extraordinary set of variations and a scampering, energised finale. Paul Frost’s An Old Song, Half Forgotten, written for the Abbey’s 2023 play of the same name, is followed by Tomáš Ille’s magical, achingly beautiful arrangement for string quartet of Janáček’s piano work In the Mists. Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade is the desert!

Presented by NCH in association with the National String Quartet Foundation