Marmen Quartet plays Beethoven and Ravel

Beethoven, Ravel and Haydn

The Marmen Quartet combines Ravel's only string quartet with Beethoven's Eighth. Ravel dedicated his melodious quartet to his old teacher, Fauré, and was admired by his colleague Debussy. Beethoven, who incorporated his deepest compositional thoughts into his string quartets, was seen as a great example by almost all later string quartet composers. Beethoven himself saw Haydn as his great example, whose sixth quartet from Opus 33 is heard.

Marble Quartet

Since its founding in 2013, the Marmen Quartet from London has rapidly developed into one of the most successful quartets of the moment. The ensemble has won almost every prize that a string quartet can win, and the young musicians are praised for their performances' courage, vitality and intensity. Last winter they were heard no fewer than three times during the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam, now they are making their debut in the Kleine Zaal.