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• 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...

• Tom Morris and Aldeburgh Music

  We recently enjoyed a week’s residency in Aldeburgh’s Snape Maltings with Tom Morris – director of War Horse and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National Theatre – discovering one of Beethoven’s late quartets, Opus 131. We were fortunate to have the rare luxury...

• Celebrate Haydn's Anniversary with a brand new Sacconi Haydn download!

  To mark Haydn's two-hundredth anniversary today, we are launching our new Haydn recordings as downloads.  Go to www.sacconi.com/recordings to download your choice of his three opus 54 quartets.  As a special anniversary-launch offer, the f...

• Sacconis at Wigmore Hall this Tuesday lunchtime

  We're very much looking forward to our lunchtime concert this Tuesday at the Wigmore Hall: Tuesday 7th April 2009, 1pm Beethoven – String Quartet in F minor, opus 95, Serioso Schumann – Piano Quintet in E flat, opus 44 with Alexandra Dariescu We...

• Sacconi Debut CD and Downloads

  We are thrilled to announce our first CD - Haydn String Quartets opus 54 - on our new label Sacconi Records.  Fresh from the pressing plant, it is now available to buy from us at all of our concerts.  We hope that soon it will be available also by mail order.  We are particula...

• Strad article

  We are featured in the March edition of The Strad - we're really pleased with the article! It can be found online here - www.thestrad.com/nStory.asp?id=1161 or of course in all good music shops....

• Sacconi week at Kings Place 4-7 March

  Following the hugely successful opening of Kings Place – London’s brand new concert hall and music centre – the Sacconi Quartet will present four days of concerts and events on 4th-7th March 2009.  Taking the form of a mini-festival, the Quartet will present a varied and en...

• Listen again opportunity on BBC Radio 3

  You can hear the concert we played with Tim Garland and his Lighthouse Trio at this year's City of London Festival for 5 days by clicking this link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g056t (It starts about 6 minu...

• Happy Christmas from the Sacconis

  As Christmas approaches, we thought it high time to send out a newsletter to keep everyone up to date with recent events and exciting things to come. It has been a busy year, and as it draws to ...

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