TICKETS

£13 - £23

Mon 12th Oct 2026 7.30pm

Show time – 7:30pm

BEETHOVEN String Quartet in D Op.18 No.3 (25’)
ADÈS Arcadiana (20’)
BRAHMS String Quartet No.1 in C minor (35’)

Opus 13, the most recent winner of the prestigious Wigmore Hall International String Quartet competition, makes its Portsmouth debut with a programme of bold and lyrical works.

Praised by the judges for “technically superb and emotionally compelling” performances, the Quartet follows in the footsteps of a glittering roster of past winners, including the internationally renowned Leonkoro Quartet, Quartet Van Kuijk and the Takacs Quartet.

Beethoven’s first string quartet is a bright, lyrical and humorous work, undercut by a deeply affecting slow movement. Indebted to Beethoven’s later work, Brahms’s String Quartet No.1 is a bold, passionate piece, from its striking opening bars to its rapturous conclusion.

Arcadiana, the first string quartet by Thomas Adès, “one of the most accomplished and complete musicians of his generation” (The New York Times) also features, portraying an evocation of paradise with references to Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, the painter Poussin and Greek mythology.