Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert - City of London Festival 2010 - Elias Quartet

Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Elias Quartet perform Villa-Lobos and Mendelssohn in the fourth lunchtime concert from the City of London Festival. This recital comes from the beautiful church of St Sepulchre-Without-Newgate in the heart of the City and a stone's throw from St Paul's. As part of the City of London Festival's focus on the Portuguese-speaking world, the concert opens with a work by the Brazilian composer Villa-Lobos, a prolific writer of quartets. Mendelssohn's last string quartet was written as a requiem to his dear sister Fanny, who died just months before her brother. Louise Fryer presents. VILLA-LOBOS String Quartet No. 1 MENDELSSOHN String Quartet Op. 80 Elias String Quartet: Sara Bitloch (violin) Donald Grant (violin) Martin Saving (viola) Marie Bitloch (cello).