Playing on gut strings and period bows brings rich musical rewards to the Chiaroscuro Quartet, broadening its bounds of expression and enabling subtle refinements of phrasing. It draws on its long and fruitful experience of performing and recording Haydn in a first half illuminated by two quartets from the composer’s ground-breaking Op. 20 and is joined after the interval by Nicolas Baldeyrou and his period clarinet in one of Mozart’s supreme masterworks.

Programme:
Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E flat Op. 20 No. 1
String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2
WA Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581

Performers:
Nicolas Baldeyrou clarinet
Alina Ibragimova violin
Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux violin
Emilie Hörnlund viola
Claire Thirion cello