This concert partners two classical gems with two giants of the 20th century. Haydn on his death bed was only able to complete two movements before signing off with a weary inscription, and Schubert began a second movement but abandoned it, deciding the single movement should stand alone. Janácek's two string quartets contain some of classical music's most passionate and complex outpourings, the work of a man driven mad by the unrequited love of a much younger married woman. The first, The Kreutzer Sonata, takes inspiration from the Tolstoy short story of the same name in which a jealous husband murders his wife, and the second is a musical representation of the hundreds of letters which passed between Janácek and Kamila Stösslová shortly before his death.

‘The Brodsky Quartet’s musical explorations know no limits.’ Gramophone