A concert by two outstanding young string quartets who will be heading to Bantry at the end of June to take part in the West Cork Chamber Music Festival

THE OLYMPIA QUARTET
Yevlaliia Yershova, violin
Ellen Crowley, violin
Charlie Duff, viola
Adam Joyce, cello
Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat major [1834]
Shostakovich: String Quartet No.8 in C minor [1960]

THE MELIORA QUARTET
Cillian Ó Cathasaigh, violin
Kate Ní Shé, violin
Kseniia Yershova, viola
Oscar Casey, cello
Beethoven: String Quartet in E minor Op.59 No.2 (Rasoumovsky) [1808]

The Olympia Quartet presents Fanny Mendelssohn’s gorgeous E flat major quartet alongside Shostakovich’s heart-breaking eighth quartet, lamenting the futility of war. The Meliora Quartet plays one of the greats of the classical repertoire, Beethoven’s second ‘Rasoumovsky’ quartet. Famed particularly for its beautiful, meditative slow movement, this quartet is also spectacularly virtuosic and will bring the concert to a rousing conclusion.