Uploaded September 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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Composer Sally Beamish speaks to Kate Molleson.

Sally Beamish was inspired to write Reed Stanzas by Elias Quartet’s Donald Grant, who doubles as a Scottish fiddle player. This, her third quartet, evokes windswept landscapes of Suffolk and Harris, threaded with the calls of a lapwing.

Find out more about Elias Quartet performing Sally Beamish's String Quartet No. 3 Reed Stanzas with the links below.

Fri 20 Sep at Kings Place: bit.ly/EliasQuartet-KP

Venus Unwrapped: bit.ly/VenusUnwrapped-KP