Fitzwilliam String Quartet: Shostakovich, Carwithen, Beethoven

Name: Fitzwilliam String Quartet: Shostakovich, Carwithen, Beethoven
Start: 2026-04-25T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-04-25T21:30:00+01:00
Location: Clare Hall Dining Hall, University of Cambridge

By Clare Hall, University of Cambridge

For this concert, the Fitzwilliam Quartet perform works by Shostakovich, Carwithen, and Beethoven.

Date and time

Location

Clare Hall Dining Hall, University of Cambridge

Herschel Road Cambridge CB3 9AL United Kingdom

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Highlights

2 hours
In person

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

The Fitzwilliam Quartet’s journey begins with Shostakovich’s Seventh Quartet, the shortest and most personal of his cycle – a poignant memorial to his first wife. A contemporary of Shostakovich, Doreen Carwithen’s First Quartet is suffused with lyrical, pastoral beauty yet driven by a restless and compelling dramatic energy. The programme culminates with Beethoven’s transcendental String Quartet in A minor, Opus 132. At its heart lies the “Holy Song of Thanksgiving"; an exploration of personal suffering, healing, and gratitude.

Programme

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7

Carwithen String Quartet No. 1

Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, opus 132

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Clare Hall, University of Cambridge