11:30am | Glenuig Hall | 60mins
The Maxwell Quartet return to the festival this year offering a coffee concert which brings together two wonderful quartets - Beethoven’s Opus 18 no 5, composed when he was in Vienna and studying the quartets of Mozart and Haydn, and developing his own voice as a quartet composer. They pair this with Prokofiev’s energetic second string quartet Opus 92, subtitled On Kabardinian Themes, and composed during WW2 while in evacuation in the Caucasus mountains. The work is full of folk music influence and wild extrovert dances.