Henschel Quartet open Leamington Music’s winter season

The Munich-based ensemble will also be launching a series of monthly concerts by international quartets at the Pump Room on Friday (October 5) when they perform Haydn’s Quartet Opus 33 No 3 ‘The Bird’ and Beethoven’s Quartets Opus 18 No 6 and Opus 59 No 2.

The Henschel Quartet has a new member since last performing in Leamington in 2009, when it gave three concerts in the Leamington Music Festival Weekend. Daniel Bell, who was born in Nottingham and educated at Chetham’s School in Manchester, has joined as the second violin with the quartet’s leader Christoph Henschel, his sister Monika playing viola and Mathias Beyer-Karlshoj the cello.

Festival director Richard Phillips said: “The new season should get off to a great start with this leading German quartet. They bring a programme of works written over a span of just 25 years, 1781 to 1806. This takes us back to the early years of the string quartet at the height of the classical music period.”

Tickets are on sale at the Bridge House Theatre box office on 776438, at Leamington tourist information centre or online.