Perhaps the most celebrated string quartet ever to emerge from the USA, the Emerson String Quartet is making its first Australian tour in over 19 years in a series of concerts for Musica Viva.

• Mozart String Quartet No. 21 in D major, K575
• Dvořák String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 51
• Shostakovich String Quartet No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 92

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Perhaps the most celebrated string quartet ever to emerge from the USA, the Emerson String Quartet is making its first Australian tour in over 19 years in a series of concerts for Musica Viva.

• Haydn String Quartet in D major, op 71 No. 2
• Bartók String Quartet in B flat major, No. 5
• Beethoven String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2, ‘Razumovsky’ (one of White Hat's Top 100 Chamber Works)

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The Australian String Quartet perform quartets by Ives and Debussy together  with the world premiere of a newly commissioned work from Australian composer Nigel Westlake.

• Ives String Quartet no 1 From the Salvation Army
• Nigel Westlake String Quartet no 3* (World Premiere)
• Debussy String Quartet op 10 (one of White Hat's Top 100 Chamber Works)