Thursday 21 June, 7pm
St Giles-without-Cripplegate
Storm and Refuge
Heart Strings: love letters in string quartets by Mendelssohn and Dvořák
Wed, 12 Jun
|St Giles Cripplegate
Lunchtime concert of love songs in string quartets by Mendelssohn and Dvořák, performed by Brother Tree Sound.
Time & Location
12 Jun 2024, 13:00 – 14:00
St Giles Cripplegate , Fore St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DA, UK
About the event
The brilliant Brother Tree Sound return to Summer Music in City Churches to perform Mendelssohn's passionate and richly romantic String Quartet No.2. Just 18, the composer gave it the motif: "Is it true that you wait for me in the arbour by the vineyard wall?"
This lovely lunchtime programme also includes a selection of Dvořák's love-songs, Cypresses, arranged by the composer for string quartet.
MENDELSSOHN String Quartet no 2 op 13
DVOŘÁK Cypresses (selection)
Brother Tree Sound string quartet
This is a lunchtime concert lasting one hour with no interval.