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• Sacconi and Macca Youtube clip

  Click HERE to see us recording "Come Home" with Sir Paul McCartney. What fun it was!...

• Sacconi Festival Dates & Box Office

  Dear Friends A very Happy New Year to you all! 2010 promises to be an exciting year for the Sacconi Quartet and this year's Festival is set to be the most exciting yet! The following link will take you to the Festival Programme for the...

• Ravel disc review online

  Our Ravel, Lalo and Turina disc has received an excellent review on MusicWeb International - "The finest version of the Ravel Quartet currently available."  Read it here. Some of you ...

• Sacconi Haydn Disc - Recording of the month!

  We were delighted to hear that MusicWeb International has voted our Haydn opus 54 disc as recording of the month. You can read the review here. MusicWeb has also declared our Ravel CD "the fines...

• Beethoven Quartet Cycle Part 1

  The Sacconi Quartet will begin their two-year Beethoven Cycle this month in and around Canterbury.  Please do join us for all three concerts if you can – booking is essential for the Canterbury concert and advisable for the Faversham and Folkestone dates. Wednesday 28th...

• Classic FM Broadcast, this Monday 28th September at 9 pm

  John Brunning is going to play a selection of pieces from our CDs on Monday night. It is our Classic FM debut and we are really hoping that they might play us again if they get enough requests! Please help make this happen (after Monday!) by going to the Classic FM website and filling in a request f...

• Baltic Cruise July - August 2009

  We set sail from Dover on the Spirit of Adventure on 23rd July and spent the next two weeks sailing through the Kiel canal and the surprisingly smooth Baltic Sea. We stopped to visit many exciting cities; Travemunde, Stockholm, Helsinki, St Petersburg, Tallinn, Riga, Klaipeda. The Saga cruise was sp...

• Two Knights in a day

  We were very fortunate to be asked to act as solo quartet in front of an orchestra for a session to record a song that Paul McCartney has written (and is singing in) for a new film 'Everybody's Fine', directed by Kirk Jones. None of us were expecting him to actually be there, so we were all quite ta...

• More than just a castle - Fort Belan

  We recently travelled across the country from Newcastle, where we were teaching students as part of the Associated Board's Music Medals Scheme, to North Wales to play a concert in a castle. I, for one, had no idea what was in store! Fort Belan is a grade I listed, 18th century fort, situated on the ...

• Schubert Octet at Royal College of Music this Thursday

  A quick reminder of our concert this Thursday at the Royal College of Music, where we will be performing two of the grandest and most wonderful works for large chamber ensemble: Beethoven – Septet in E flat, opus 20 Schubert – Octet in F, D 803 We will be joined...

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