Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert - Schwetzingen Festival 2009 - Emerson String Quartet

Louise Fryer presents highlights from the 2009 EBU Schwetzingen Festival in Germany. A performance of two contrasting works by the Emerson String Quartet - Charles Ives' first quartet, a lyrical piece based on hymn tunes, and one of Beethoven's Razumovsky Quartets, written for a violin-playing Russian Count. Emerson String Quartet Ives: String Quartet No 1 Beethoven: String Quartet in E minor, Op 59, No 2 (Razumovsky).