Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Patrick Hemmerlé: Haydn, Osborne, Schumann

The Fitzwilliam String Quartet and pianist Patrick Hemmerlé perform Haydn, Nigel Osborne and Schumann's Piano Quintet at Clare Hall, Cambridge.

This concert pairs the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Quartet-in-Residence at Clare Hall, with pianist Patrick Hemmerlé, the college's Musician-in-Residence. The programme opens with Haydn's Quartet in E flat opus 76 no 6, followed by Nigel Osborne's contemporary work Birnam Wood. It concludes with Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat, a cornerstone of the Romantic chamber repertoire. The concert runs for 90 minutes.