A leading South West string quartet will perform in Sidmouth this month.

The Haldon Quartet will play at Sidmouth Parish Church on Saturday, November 30.

The concert will feature a new programme with pieces selected to evoke a variety of moods, from nostalgic Viennese sparkle to traditional folk music.

The quartet, comprising four musicians with extensive professional backgrounds, has played in major orchestras and now shares a passion for chamber music in the West Country.

The concert will open with Schubert's early quartet No 9 in G minor, composed when the musician was only 18.

The piece, from a fruitful period for Schubert, highlights his talent for melody and foreshadows the lyrical and emotional nuances found in his later works.

Next, the audience will be treated to Caroline Shaw's Plan and Elevation, an evocative composition from 2015 that takes listeners on a tour of the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC, portraying the varied characteristics of those surroundings with a blend of classical and contemporary techniques.

Erich Korngold's Quartet No 2, written in Vienna in 1933, opens the second half of the programme.

Its musical imagery reflects both the city and Korngold's native countryside, carrying echoes of the works of both Johann and Richard Strauss.

The concert will conclude with arrangements of traditional Scandinavian folk music by the Danish String Quartet.

The transcriptions merge traditional melodies with classical string quartet techniques.

The pieces range from "Jasspodspolka", which fuses elements of jazz with a traditional Swedish dance, to "Halling", a lively acrobatic dance from Norway.

Tickets can be purchased from Paragon Books in Sidmouth, online or at the venue.