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Watch this wonderful concert from London's BT Centre with the Artea Quartet performing some of the greatest music for string quartet. Filmed one week after their masterclass with David Watkin the Artea Quartet perform music from the masterclass as part of a superb lunchtime concert.

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Beethoven - String Quartet Op.132 (45')
One of the great masterpieces of the repertoire. Towards the end of Beethoven's life, when he was totally deaf but still composing as actively as ever, he produced a set of five string quartets which were astonishingly avant garde to his contemporaries. The depth and intensity of the music is still challenging as Beethoven stretches the medium to its limits and demands that performers reach the same expressive depths.

The Artea Quartet:
Winners of the prestigious Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund "Ensemble Award", the Artea Quartet made their BBC Proms debut this year with a Composer Portrait of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Read their profile to find out more about them and their plans for the future.

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Beethoven - String Quartet in A Minor Op. 132
This quartet was the third in his series of five late string quartets and probably contains some of his greatest music.
During 1825 Beethoven suffered from a serious illness and as a result of returning to health he wrote the 3rd movement of the piece - Heiliger Dankgesang ('Hymn of Thanksgiving to the divinity, from the convalescent, in the Lydian mode'). This movement is said to be a reaction of Beethoven's fear of his own mortality and is one of his most lyrical and deeply anguished compositions.

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