The 34th Chamber Music Cycle with the Stradivarius violins from the Royal Collection begins with this concert by a well-known and prestigious string quartet. On this occasion, the Brentano Quartet made their third visit to Madrid’s Royal Palace. Founded in 1992 in New York’s Julliard School, they have been the quartet in residence at Princeton and Yale, two of the United States’ oldest and most illustrious universities.

Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin are hear on the violin, Misha Armory on the viola, and Nina Lee on the cello, in a programme with very different aesthetics, one of the characteristic of this quartet. Renaissance works which have never been heard in the Hall of Columns create a dialogue with a contemporary composition by Stephen Hartke, and with quartets by two great masters: Franz Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven.