Borodin String Quartet At The Wigmore Hall, 13 November 2001

I thought Janie might like string quartets and thought that this programme might please her:

• Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet No 9 in E flat major Op 117
• Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in E flat major Op 74 “Harp”

Possibly a Tuesday evening after a long day of work was not the ideal testing ground for my assumption.

But I also think that this sort of string quartet is not much to Janie’s taste on any occasion.

Still, Janie says it is always good to relax and listen to music at The Wig, even if the music would not be one’s first choice.

Here’s a recording of the Novus String Quartet playing the Shostakovich:

And here is the Alban Berg quartet playing the Beethoven one: