Narratio Quartet

The narrative of the Amsterdam based Narratio Quartet began in 2009 when it was invited to perform Beethoven’s last five string quartets on five consecutive nights at the Early Music Festival Utrecht. It is precisely these late Beethoven quartets which are rarely played on period instruments, using gut strings and 19th-century bows. Since then the quartet has worked backwards and here presents the complete cycle of Beethoven quartets. The name “Narratio” refers to the art of rhetoric and illustrates the quartet’s focus on storytelling and interaction between the musicians and also between the quartet and the audience. Their repertoire has expanded to the later 19th century with Brahms, Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn.