The second of the 2025 Langton Summer Concerts will take place on Saturday 30 August when the Heath Quartet returns to follow up their very memorable visit in September 2018. Please note that this is NOT the Bank Holiday weekend.
Saturday 30 August 2025 - 6.30 pm
Langton Church, Langton by Spilsby PE23 4PU
HEATH QUARTET
Maja Horvat and Sara Wolstenholme (violins)
Gary Pomeroy (viola)
Christopher Murray (cello)
PROGRAMME
Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) Quartet in G major Opus 33 No 5
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) Quartet No.16 in F major Opus 135
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Antonin Dvořák (1841 – 1904) Quartet No.10 in E flat Opus 51
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The Heath Quartet, originally formed in 2002 and now one of the most established and widely recognised string quartets in Britain, and with an enviable reputation on the Continent and in USA, returns to Langton after a gap of seven years to present another outstanding programme.
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Followed by drinks and canapés in the candlelit church
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Suggested donations (£25 per person in advance or £28 on the door) to "Langton with Sutterby PCC" c/o Langton Cottage, Langton, Spilsby PE23 4PU
BACS payment available (and preferred) - please ask for details.
01790 753649 / 01790 753561 / 07809 619401
webmaster@langton-by-spilsby.org.uk
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Please feel free to circulate this email (and the attached flier) to others who you think might be interested in this evening's performance.
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The Heath Quartet (www.heathquartet.com) first performed a memorable programme at Langton in 2018 to a packed audience. The Quartet was formed in 2002 at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester and is now one of the most established British String Quartets. It was selected for representation by the Young Classical Arts Trust (YCAT) and has since won numerous national and international competitions. In 2016 it won the GRAMOPHONE Chamber Award for the recording of the Tippett quartets. In May 2013 the Quartet became the first ensemble in fifteen years to win the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society's Young Artists Award. The Quartet's Tippett album was followed by two discs recorded for Harmonia Mundi/PIAS and part-funded by a BBT Special Ensemble Scholarship featuring Tchaikovsky’s first and third quartets (BBC Radio 3 Disc of the Week) and the complete Bartók quartets (2017 Limelight Chamber Music Award; nominated for 2018 GRAMOPHONE Chamber Award). Their most recent release on Signum Records with Carolyn Sampson features works by Berg, Webern and Schoenberg. Recent highlights include a two-season residency at Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, a Barcelona debut in Palau de la Musica Catalana, a Beethoven series at Bath Festival, debuts at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Saffron Hall and Cheltenham Festival, as well as concerts at Handelsbeurs Ghent, Aldeburgh and Norfolk & Norwich festivals.
In 2023/24 season the Heath Quartet toured the USA, gave a live broadcast with Steven Osborne for the BBC Proms, and performed in BBC Radio 4's How to Play - a special programme focussing on Schubert's 'Death and the Maiden' Quartet. It gave the inaugural concert at the newly renovated Brighton Dome Corn Exchange and enjoyed collaborations with, amongst others, Tom Poster, Ben Goldscheider and the Elias String Quartet.
In 2025 the Heath Quartet became String Quartet in Residence at Middlesex University.
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Note that the Langton Concerts have become increasingly well known and it is very advisable to book early to avoid disappointment as there are normally few, if any, spaces available on the door on the day of the concerts themselves.