Castalian Quartet & Rosalind Ventris

The Castalian Quartet—one of the UK’s most exciting and in-demand string quartets—open the festival with a gripping selection of works ranging from Beethoven’s moving ‘Serioso’ Quartet to Coleridge-Taylor’s evocative Fantasiestücke, before violist Rosalind Ventris joins them to perform Dvořák’s life-affirming Quintet in Eb major. Franz Schubert - Quartettsatz in C minor, D703 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - 5 Fantasiestücke, Op. 5 Ludwig van Beethoven - Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 Antonín Dvořák - Quintet in Eb major, Op. 97