As dusk falls over Brompton Cemetery, step through the gates for an unforgettable evening of music among the dead. Set in the cemetery chapel, this unforgettable concert explores love, memory and mortality through three masterpieces of string quartet repertoire.

Anton Webern’s luminous Langsamer Satz captures a fleeting moment of youthful love, preserved like a cherished memory before time can claim it. Leoš Janáček’s searing Kreutzer Sonata, inspired by Tolstoy’s dark tale of jealousy and murder, is one of classical music’s most gripping psychological dramas, where passion and violence become fatally entwined. Béla Bartók’s revolutionary Fourth String Quartet completes the evening by dissolving the boundaries between the human and the natural world, its strange, spectral soundscape suggesting nature’s quiet reclamation of all things.

An atmospheric concert in one of London’s most beautiful cities of the dead. Remember, you haven’t heard classical music until you’ve heard it performed by candlelight in a cemetery, surrounded by 30,000 eavesdropping corpses.

Tickets £20 including a delightful gin cocktail. Please click here to purchase

The Idalia Quartet
Initially formed at the Royal College of Music Junior Department in 2022, the Idalia Quartet is comprised of scholarship students currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music. They have performed at Wigmore Hall and gave the UK premiere of Steven Goss’ guitar quintet ‘Wynwood Walls’ in February 2023. In October 2024, they will make their debut as part of the Academy Manson Ensemble, performing a completely contemporary programme which will include the world premiere of ‘Substrata’ by Andrea Balency-Béarn and the UK premiere of Abracadabra (Suncatchers) for 11 virtuosi by Augusta Read Thomas in the prestigious Duke’s Hall.