And the Emerson String Quartet will play Bartok's six quartets and Beethoven's "Razumovsky" Quartets in three concerts.
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They start with Haydn, the second of the Op. 20 quartets, and end with Beethoven, the first of the "Razumovsky" quartets.
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Starting a complete survey of the Beethoven quartets that spans six concerts in the space of two weeks, these three young Danes and their Norwegian cellist play the first three Op. 18003 quartets on Friday, the second three on Sunday and the "Razumovsky" quartets on Tuesday.
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That night, as it happens, the Miró Quartet traverses all three quartets at Lincoln Center—part of a welcome Chamber Music Society series that has also surveyed overlooked quartets by Zemlinsky and Nielsen.
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Beethoven for a Later Age: Living with the String Quartets.
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In fact, Kirchner's four quartets reflect a range of influences.
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Lark Quartet performs string quartets of Debussy and Dvorak. Sept.
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For string quartets, Bach has generally been off the map.
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WINDHAM Lark Quartet performs string quartets of Debussy and Dvorak. Sept.
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At the time, the country had few homegrown quartets of stature.
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They have been working for years on several Schubert string quartets.
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Trios form, then morph into quartets before splitting into teams of two.
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This sophisticated French foursome gives a recital entirely of Beethoven, with the last of the Op. 18 quartets; the relatively rarely heard Op. 95 quartet (the "Serioso"); and one of the late quartets, Op. 127.212-247-7800, carnegiehall.
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That's the approach the Danish quartet took in two recent recordings on the ECM label, "Prism I" and "Prism II," which place two late Beethoven quartets in context with Bach fugues and 20th-century quartets by Shostakovich and Schnittke.
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Or, for that matter, the six early quartets published together as Op. 1303.
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THOMAS ADÈS, PER NORGARD, HANS ABRAHAMSEN: QUARTETS Danish String Quartet (ECM New Series).
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Others Beethoven's last quartets, which was perhaps closer, though again not exactly right.
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To hear the quartets in succession is to experience Ginastera's career in microcosm.
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Quartets would gather around barbershops, churches and street corners, making music on the fly.
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After sixty-eight quartets, Mr. Yee reported, Haydn fatigue has yet to set in.
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Two string quartets have defined New York's new-music scene over the past decade.
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The way one follows another helps to make this "Four Quartets" a spiritual journey.
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This version of the score has the poignant economy of Beethoven's late string quartets.
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For the look of "Four Quartets," Ms. Tanowitz has worked closely with Mr. Taylor.
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The Danish String Quartet plans to play all of Beethoven's quartets in concert this month.
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The program consists of two middle-period Beethoven quartets and Bartok's moody Quartet No. 1.
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Programming ranges from string quartets to Baroque guitarists, usually at midday hours, Monday through Friday.
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Besides the cool AF products (no bland eyeshadow quartets here), it's the minds behind the brand.
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Other ensembles have collaborated with Mr. Johnston, among them the La Salle, Concord and Kronos quartets.
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And this weekend, they were supposed to present John Zorn's complete, knotty quartets, over two evenings.
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Her mother was a concert violist, and Ms. Peacock often heard string quartets rehearsing at home.
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It reeks of horns and harps, harmonica quartets, assorted animal noises and a 91-piece orchestra.
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Young string quartets abound at the moment, but the Dorics, a British foursome, are particularly special.
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He also performed Beethoven's string quartets in the presence of the composer and, in 1822, Rossini.
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When I was organizing "Millennium Approaches" [the first part of "Angels"], I listened to Beethoven's middle string quartets and a lot of Haydn string quartets and thought about a theme, a countertheme and something that runs up the middle, and I tried to organize it like that.
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" 753 - Begins a collaboration with jazz musician Charlie Mingus on an interpretation of T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets.
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The quartets fit neatly into the standard, if flawed, conception of Beethoven's early, middle and late periods.
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Now, it is a principle throughout the Four Quartets that the ending is contained in the beginning.
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What caught my attention in this album was that there are various pieces made for string quartets.
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Back-to-back programs each day will feature solos, duets, trios and quartets, some addressing female identity.
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After recording committed accounts of the complete Nielsen quartets for Dacapo, the quartet took a year off.
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"We have very pretentious programming, with an actor doing monologues from Tolstoy with Janacek quartets," he said.
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Few concerts last year could match the group's mind-expanding cycle of Elliott Carter's five string quartets.
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It's also a window into how Carter's attitude about the nature of quartets evolved through his lifetime.
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On Saturday, this foursome plays two works in E flat, with piano quartets by Beethoven and Schumann.
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It's hard to single out movements, or even moments, from the ensemble's accounts of the late quartets.
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Together, these two quartets of skilled reptiles will team up to fight '80s Krang and Kraang Sub-Prime.
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The lights dimmed, the phones went up, and a few orchestral quartets located throughout the space began playing.
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For this faculty recital the program includes two middle-period quartets by Beethoven and Bartok's Quartet No. 1163.
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Few poems are as suffused in ideas of dance as these Eliot "Quartets," written between 1936 and 1942.
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We're a smaller organization and we take people from every instrument, and voice, and string quartets, and ensembles.
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It's perfect for a small orchestra, and the music of string quartets comes across with full, lively sound.
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Beethoven modeled those Op. 18 quartets on Haydn — his teacher, who essentially invented the genre of string quartet.
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Beethoven practiced polystylism long before Schnittke employed that term: the late quartets juxtapose Bachian counterpoint with Rossinian frivolity.
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We are spoiled for choice with youngish string quartets at the moment, but this foursome is particularly fine.
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There are quartets of marzipan, sugar plums and gingerbread men; Princess Tea Flower (Stella Abrera), Prince Coffee (Mr.
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Count Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador to Vienna and a violinist, commissioned the three middle period quartets of Op. 59.
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The Barbershop Harmony Society estimates that at least 15,000 singing Valentines are delivered each season by about 1,000 quartets.
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"I don't even think of it as a cycle," Mr. Segnitz said of the quartets in a telephone interview.
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As on their new release, they play the complete quartets of Bartok — odd numbers on Tuesday, evens on Wednesday.
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But perhaps Beethoven's string quartets could benefit from being heard complete if they're in order, spanning the composer's career.
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Patrolling the city are quartets of suited men called the Directions, who look out left, right, ahead and behind.
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The concert, at the Rose Studio, comprised Bartok's first, third and fifth quartets, works that need feline flexibility of expression.
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And he'll revisit his albums "The Leprechaun" and "Three Quartets," with groups featuring Steve Gadd on drums. Oct. 19-Dec.
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This unusual program interrupts two decadent, late-Romantic quartets by Szymanowski and Debussy with Berio's "Sequenza III" for solo voice.
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Do indie quartets still toast away with their lives by clinking Bollinger with a large man in an ill-fitting suit?
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In addition, Shirley composed three symphonies, two piano concerti, a cello concerto, three string quartets, a one-act opera, and more.
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All the way through the late quartets, you still feel like afterward you'd go out and have a beer with him.
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And he'll revisit his 1976 album "The Leprechaun" and his 1981 LP "Three Quartets," with groups featuring Steve Gadd on drums.
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A month later, the Jewish Museum hosts the first-ever complete retrospective of Wolfe's string quartets, played by ETHEL (Feb. 28).
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Then there's her company's coming tour to London to present "Four Quartets," her acclaimed work inspired by the T.S. Eliot poems.
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What you don't hear in these quartets is Ms. Shaw the collaborator who prefers to write for specific artists and occasions.
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That sort of unity of sound and purpose is a given in any performance by the extraordinary Jerusalem Quartet, which on Thursday completed the opening leg of a marathon in which it will play all six Bartok quartets and the first six quartets by Beethoven within a single week at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
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Quartets perform synchronized routines but the highest respect is reserved for the soloists, who show their prowess in accelerating five-minute sprints.
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The program's second half is "Heaven on One's Head," which New York saw in 2014; it's to Conlon Nancarrow's string quartets Nos.
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In her new staging of T.S. Eliot's poems "Four Quartets," the choreographer Pam Tanowitz has created dance theater of the highest caliber.
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Each wedding ceremony came complete with string quartets, a harpist, masters of ceremony, an celebrant, a photographer and videographer, and flower arrangements.
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On the bill this time are the fourth and fifth of the six Op. 83 quartets, and the titanic Op. 130.attaccaquartet.
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Beethoven at 213 | Critic's Notebook The Danish String Quartet presented the composer's complete quartets over six extraordinary concerts at Alice Tully Hall.
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JOSHUA BARONE AT 1 MINUTE 40 SECONDS Among the many excellent quartets of the new generation, the Danish String Quartet stands out.
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Female quartets are nothing new: Ms. Schween, now of Juilliard, was long one of the four women making up the Lark Quartet.
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But this summer he put out an ambitious album of his own, "Peace Planet & Box of Light: The Tao Quartets," featuring two groups.
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S. Eliot, Four Quartets "East Coker" The watchdog's voice that bayed the whisp'ring wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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At the Morgan Library & Museum, the dependable JACK Quartet tackles Carter's complete string quartets, five stunning works written over nearly a half-century.
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What a fine series the bargain-basement Peoples' Symphony has put together this season, particularly in terms of leading pianists and string quartets.
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He was also founder of one of the first professional string quartets, the Schuppanzigh Quartet, which included Mayseder and premiered works by Beethoven.
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The simplest of Mr. Johnston's quartets incorporate folk music set in clear harmonies that gain a rosy-cheeked innocence from the meticulously tuned intervals.
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It says something that in more than 40 years, the Chamber Music Society had presented only one of Ginastera's three quartets before this program.
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The topics are wide ranging and have included Plato's Symposium, the eye (not for squeamish listeners), and " Four Quartets," T. S. Eliot's last work.
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At its world premiere at Bard SummerScape in July, Pam Tanowitz's "Four Quartets" proved the most sublime new work of dance theater this year.
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You can see them on this 2017 video giving an arresting performance of Bartok's Third String Quartet, my favorite of that composer's six quartets.
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Sure enough, Balanchine gives us six pairs, three quartets, two sextets and four trios, with those two demi-soloists often adding a further layer.
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The group has also seeded the world with other distinguished quartets that it helped train, among them the Tokyo, Emerson, Concord, Brentano and LaSalle.
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Meanwhile, about 20 miles south of all this, at Bard College, Pam Tanowitz's "Four Quartets" was having its soon-to-be-raved-about premiere.
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The Doric is one of the most accomplished young string quartets around, which is saying something at a time when we're inundated with them.
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Later in the week, the superb Jerusalem String Quartet delves into Bartok's string quartets, offering the first, third and fifth in the intimate Rose Studio.
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"Flaws and imperfections" emerged in the late quartets, Mr. Norgaard said, in the way that a human being can be perfect yet full of mistakes.
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Why the deep state wants to break into "Four Quartets" I can't imagine, but it has to be good news for the national literacy rate.
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Although the "Four Quartets" style throughout feels homogeneous, the dancers alternate, in a rare way, between firm technical rigor and a looser kind of softness.
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In one of the two quartets I saw, dancers, wearing allover tights, emphatically leaned over to present their backsides to the audience in sustained poses.
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The pre-eminent French foursome returns to New York with Fauré's only string quartet, Dutilleux's "Ainsi la nuit" and the second of Beethoven's "Razumovsky" quartets.
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This foursome of three Danes and a Norwegian is one of our most energetic and effervescent young quartets — beards, line of craft beer and all.
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The two quartets combined with other string players in a stingingly focused account of Stravinsky's "Apollo": too bad that the orchestra pit was considerably overamplified.
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The Orchestra of St. Luke's performs music including excerpts from Price's string quartets, the "Five Folksongs in Counterpoint," and spirituals made famous by Marian Anderson.
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There's Haydn, with one of the Opus 20 quartets, as well as Borodin and a Mozart string quintet, with Steven Tenenbom as the guest violist.
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Her quartets string together quotation, homage and wholly original sound in a structure that can be explained in retrospect but never predicted in the moment.
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On Friday, the Miró Quartet digs into Beethoven's middle period; further on in the cycle the Orion, Escher and Danish string quartets will continue the journey.
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JAMES R. OESTREICH Jerusalem Quartet (Harmonia Mundi) After he finished his first set of string quartets, at 30, Beethoven felt he had finally mastered the genre.
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Beethoven, apparently full of respect for their accomplishment, waited until his late 20s to take on the form, accepting a commission for the Op. 18 quartets.
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When his now famous "Grosse Fuge", originally the last movement of one of his late quartets, was shredded by critics, Beethoven grudgingly wrote a new ending.
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In the arena throughout the event, gospel quartets croon standards like "Rank Stranger" and "I Saw the Light" in an effort to ease the day's trials.
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He had taken to multitasking while walking his dog, Chopper, using the down time to familiarize himself with all the Haydn quartets he did not know.
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With his fellow Borromeo players, he now reads the late Beethoven quartets directly off a manuscript, which he can display — and mark up — on his screen.
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His appeal to audiences has never been in doubt, as his song cycles, piano sonatas, and string quartets parade across our stages at a constant clip.
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The two lieutenants and, behind them, one quartet face front; the others remain in two vertical lines (quartets left and right) that withdraw to the sides.
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Mr. Husa created works in most of the standard concert-music forms apart from opera, including two symphonies, several concertos, four string quartets and three ballets.
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Finally, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses 299.98" is the archival coup; it features one of Monk's strongest quartets putting down tracks for the score to a French film.
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This new series presents recorded performances from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, with a first episode that pairs performances of quartets by Mozart and Brahms.
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I group Abbott's novels in quartets: First there were the midcentury, gender-flipped noir novels; then there were the contemporary, competitive-drenched suspense novels of adolescent competition.
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If your business is playing string quartets for live audiences, there's a fundamental limit to how much more productive, in raw economic terms, your work can become.
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As Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart knew so well, and illustrated in opuses such as "The Marriage of Figaro" and "Così fan tutte", quartets are a perfect operatic tool.
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It's always a quartet—times 30—so we have 30 quartets each producing one film, going from the first encounter, seeing how it develops, to the presentation.
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At a certain point in a complete musical traversal — of all Shostakovich's string quartets, say, or all nine Beethoven symphonies — you inevitably reach the less popular works.
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As adept in contemporary music as in the classics, they will play quartets by Mozart and Beethoven, as well as music by Elliott Carter and Hans Thomalla.
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Accomplishing quite the feat of modern music, this indefatigable foursome plays the five complete quartets of Elliott Carter, a body of music stretching from 1951 to 1995.
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Their "Four Quartets" features narration of Eliot's poems by Kathleen Chalfant, live music from the Knights and dancing by eight members of Ms. Tanowitz's stellar company. fishercenter.bard.
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After two straight strong fundraising quartets, Mayor Pete has the resources to raise his visibility to the level of Warren, Sanders and Biden on a national scale.
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Listening to the variety of musicians, from Brazilian samba players and jazz quartets to a singer from Guinea-Bissau performing in Mandinka, she fell into a trance.
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These quartets, which feature a battery of instruments outside the standard drum kit, tease out the different parameters that govern ensemble playing, like synchronicity, imitation, competition and symmetry.
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These three young Danes and their Norwegian friend conclude their survey of the Beethoven string quartets with some of the works that have drawn them such widespread acclaim.
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And, although Ms. Tanowitz uses six dancers, she regularly gives us quartets, arranged to address the four corners of the stage, now the two audiences on either side.
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Then he presented a poster depicting things Trump has not attacked: barbershop quartets, pumpkin spice lattes and white supremacists who attended a march in Charlottesville, Va., last month.
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If I am right to think this is the greatest creation of dance theater so far this century, we're fortunate that "Four Quartets" will travel to other stages.
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One of the innumerable quality quartets doing the rounds at the moment, this group takes on a fairly routine but nonetheless interesting program of Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Beethoven.
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They also offer various sorting tools to let connoisseurs sift through the voluminous listings of, say, Beethoven's string quartets to find that one recording by that one ensemble.
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They're reliably surprising, and reliably impressive; their marathon performance of Elliott Carter's string quartets earlier this spring remains one of the most gratifying concerts I've heard all season.
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For all the command these probing musicians demonstrated in their riveting accounts of the late quartets, their excellence came through most in bracing performances of the early works.
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And what a way for her to start saying goodbye, with this cycle of the complete quartets of Bartok, the odd-numbered ones on Friday, evens on Sunday.
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Weinberg's chamber music — including 17 string quartets and solo string sonatas for not just violin, viola and cello but also for double bass — is also rich in variety.
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Inspired by the A. S. Byatt novel of the same title, "Possession" benefits from doubling (quartets, twin duets), a structural complication that takes some pressure off the importuning.
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" Ms. Chalfant has thrown herself into the project with much enthusiasm, even traveling to England for a pilgrimage to visit three of the sites that inspired "Four Quartets.
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The Quatuor Bozzini has made rapt recordings of the quartets, for Edition Wandelweiser; in a further challenge to contemporary listening habits, they are available only through mail order.
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He said some of the quartets came to seem like acts in a larger opera, and that the later works felt far more intimate than their grand reputation warranted.
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In a notable exception, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presented the Miró Quartet in exciting accounts of Ginastera's three string quartets on a single program last month.
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It's modeled along the lines of America's best-known Chopin ballet, Jerome Robbins's "Dances at a Gathering," with solos, duets and quartets that show camaraderie, rivalry, fun and moodiness.
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And they were back there this month for a series of six concerts, again presented by the society, devoted to all 16 of Beethoven's quartets performed in chronological order.
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A global campaign entitled "Music for Human Rights Defenders" or #music4HRDs, invites string quartets to videotape themselves playing a movement from the album and posting it on social media.
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Joe Ligon, whose raspy, throbbing vocals and preaching style helped make the Mighty Clouds of Joy one of the most successful gospel quartets of all time, died on Sunday.
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S. Eliot, Four Quartets, "Little Gidding" It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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" Next comes the Everest of the quartets, Op. 131: treasured by Wagner; called for by a dying Schubert, who supposedly said, "After this, what is left for us to write?
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Like Beethoven in the late string quartets or piano sonatas, Shakespeare in "The Winter's Tale" — play No. 36 out of 39, give or take — no longer observes the lane lines.
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Still, there was not a sense of directness or intimacy like that achieved by Tenet in its peregrinations, and Trinity's two quartets, widely separated, lacked a comparable unity and force.
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The sirens were the opening shot in a set of "Drumkit Quartets" by the percussionist-composer Glenn Kotche, who is best known for his work with the alt-rock band Wilco.
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S. Eliot, "Four Quartets" In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
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We tell the story about Beethoven writing this massive fugue finale for one of his string quartets and he's so nervous about the premiere and how it's going to be received.
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Other highlights include the Emerson String Quartet in a Sunday afternoon concert that draws a bridge from the last complete set of Haydn quartets to Beethoven's first contributions to the genre.
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Next Wednesday and Thursday he revisits the music from his 1981 album "Three Quartets," leading a band with Ben Solomon on saxophones, Eddie Gomez on bass and Steve Gadd on drums.
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The program was the group's second of three concerts at Alice Tully Hall this spring juxtaposing Haydn's Opus 76 quartets with Beethoven's Opus 18 works, exploring the stylistic similarities between them.
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In anticipation of Ludwig van's 250th birthday later this year, a Times editor listened to all 16 quartets by the composer — nearly nine hours of music in all — over 10 days.
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Three quartets are on the agenda: the last of the Op. 18 set; the last of the Op. 59 trio; and the last of them all, Op. 7573-721-6500, lcgreatperformers.
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His 10 string quartets, for example, are dramatic, sometimes incendiary scores with hard-driving and often tense fast movements as well as ruminative slow movements — with occasional quotations from folk melodies.
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The Jerusalem Quartet leads the charge, bringing its youthful energy and old-school gloss to Beethoven's sprightly Op. 18 quartets in two concerts at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday at 5 p.m.
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He had been preparing to join Mr. Andsnes, the violist Tabea Zimmermann and the cellist Clemens Hagen for a marathon program offering Brahms's three piano quartets at Carnegie Hall on Saturday night.
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On the program are string quartets by Philip Glass and Meredith Monk as well as the premiere of a cello solo by Caleb Burhans, played by Clarice Jensen, the ensemble's artistic director.
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American concertgoers were inclined to prefer the sonic grandeur of symphony orchestras; the handful of quartets booked regularly in United States concert halls tended to be imports like the Budapest String Quartet.
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Of course, that hasn't stopped Carnegie from bringing Beethoven back to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth, with about a fifth of its season devoted to the sonatas, quartets and concertos.
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The Danish and the Alban Berg are among dozens of quartets to have performed or recorded the cycle, which has been likened to Shakespeare's plays, Rembrandt's portraits, the New Testament, the Bible itself.
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The more adventurous of the two quartets on the album reunite there, bringing a world of insights; its members are Tom Harrell on trumpet, Anthony Cox on bass and Billy Hart on drums.
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In a sequence of six quartets and duets, this intimate group moves around the stage in stylized choreography, performing with the serious fun — and occasional melancholy and cruelty — of a commedia dell'arte troupe.
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They stick to the Austro-Germanic tradition in this performance, but with a neat trick in the first half: three quartets dealing with the subject of hunts, by Haydn, Mozart and Jörg Widmann.
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Pam Tanowitz, whose 2018 piece "Four Quartets" at the Bard Fisher Center in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., received critical raves, will return as its first choreographer in residence, the center announced on Thursday.
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Over the years, the quartet gave thousands of concerts worldwide, recorded extensively and performed repertoire ranging from the complete Beethoven quartets to the work of Bartok, Schoenberg, Lukas Foss, Milton Babbitt and Roger Sessions.
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The first work she plans to create through this fellowship is "Four Quartets," an evening-length staging of T.S. Eliot's poem with an original score by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho ("L'Amour de Loin").
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Later in the month this outstanding young foursome has a very fine recording of the Schumann quartets coming out on the Azica label, and there's Schumann in this concert, too, albeit the Piano Quintet.
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"The Magic of Schubert," a festival next winter that will offer performances of Schubert's sonatas, quartets, dances, octets and lieder, will anchor the Chamber Music Society's 2020-21 season, which was announced on Tuesday.
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The chorus of 12 was deployed in three quartets that moved independently around the altar space, often making close contact with the audience in this intimate setting, singing separately, or combining for full effect.
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Of all the skills he has flashed this season, the ability to come out of nowhere and dunk on top of trios and quartets of floor-bound rebounders has to be the most unexpected.
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Around 8pm, the introductions and recommendations for farmer's markets died down, as Sam Bodkin stood to announce the night's entertainment: two violinists, one cellist, and a violist playing selections of quartets by Haydn and Brahms.
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Like the preposterously difficult rhythms Conlon Nancarrow developed in his studies for player piano, the microtonal intricacies of Mr. Johnston's quartets can seem like exercises designed to measure the gap between human imagination and ability.
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When the Attacca Quartet's six-year survey of all 68 of Haydn's string quartets ends on Thursday, the ensemble will have played, by its reckoning, roughly 32,000 measures of Haydn, lasting close to 24 hours.
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One of the quartets on the program for the final concert on Thursday, Op. 76, No. 5, is among the few that was in the Attacca's repertoire before it began the journey, Mr. Yee said.
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Ludwig van Beethoven's 16 string quartets are a cornerstone of the chamber music repertory, and those in the New York area this week will have three opportunities to hear them performed by very different ensembles.
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And at Alice Tully Hall on Thursday, the august Juilliard Quartet, which has been playing Beethoven for more than seventy years, pairs two of the composer's quartets with James MacMillan's haunting String Quartet No. 2.
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With the young Queen Victoria often in the audience, the world's foremost ballerinas appeared there, sometimes in duets, trios and quartets, with Perrot making creative breakthroughs in terms of both narrative ballet and pure-dance divertissements.
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The more adventurous of the two quartets on the album will reunite there next week, bringing a world of insights; its members are Tom Harrell on trumpet, Anthony Cox on bass and Billy Hart on drums.
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"Quartets," from 1995, recorded live at the Village Vanguard, used two different groups; one was a short-lived, loose and bracing quartet with the trumpeter Tom Harrell, the bassist Anthony Cox and the drummer Billy Hart.
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But JACK's performance, a head-spinning marathon of Elliott Carter's five string quartets, two and a half hours of notoriously thorny music, was one of the most eye-opening and exhilarating concerts I've heard all season.
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Now, sometimes an ensemble will survey a composer's works in one genre through a special series of concerts: an orchestra will play the six Tchaikovsky symphonies, or a string quartet might tackle the 16 Beethoven quartets.
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Hear one of the better young quartets around in a short concert in an intimate space, featuring Mendelssohn's Quartet in F minor and Brahms's String Quintet in G, with the violist Roberto Diaz joining the group.
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The Chiara players have consistently embraced adventurous initiatives that push beyond the conventions of chamber music, including two recent "by heart" projects that involved performing and recording the complete quartets of Brahms and Bartók from memory.
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Mozart's very courageous and breathtaking gesture is to treat all people of all classes as equals in the quartets and sextets and trios, where people of very different social status are treated equally by the music.
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On April 7, the Enso Quartet, which made an incisive recording of Ginastera's three string quartets for Naxos, plays the Third Quartet, which includes soprano settings of poems by Lorca, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Rafael Alberti.
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The Jerusalem Quartet takes on the first leg with performances of the sprightly Op. 18 quartets on Sunday and Tuesday, promising the sort of sweet and graceful playing it brought to its recent recording of this music.
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An article last Sunday about the difficult string quartets composed by Ben Johnston, some of which are on a new CD by the Kepler Quartet, misspelled the surname of a violinist in the quartet at one point.
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On a recent sun-scorched afternoon, the sound of trumpets blasted from an attic by the gatehouse while piano duets thundered from the hall, and a cacophony of wind ensembles, string quartets and opera filled the outbuildings.
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The String Quartets 2 and 3 — which will be performed at Trinity, and also by the Miró Quartet at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on April 7 — are hyper-refined but carry a granitic force.
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Appearing under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, this engaging foursome performs the third of Mozart's "Prussian" quartets, Beethoven's titanic Op. 303 quartet, and a rarity: Ives's Quartet No. 2.212-875-5788, chambermusicsociety.
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Most recently, Ms. Quinn spearheaded the creation of two awards: the Four Quartets Prize for a unified sequence of poems, funded by the T.S. Eliot Foundation, and the Anna Rabinowitz Prize for an interdisciplinary work featuring poetry.
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Over the last 20 years he assembled a range of quartets, often including the violinist Mark Feldman and the drummer Joey Baron, with whom he tended toward a light-footed, chamberlike approach, often moving into free improvising.
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The prominent artists he produced there, in addition to Rubinstein, included Itzhak Perlman; Gregor Piatigorsky; Peter Serkin; Van Cliburn; the Guarneri and Cleveland Quartets; Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra; and Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony.
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Faber & Faber; £18.99The lead violinist of the Takacs Quartet recounts its members' musical lives, interweaving into the group's autobiography the story of Beethoven's 16 string quartets, which are now regarded as the apogee of the chamber-music repertoire.
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I admit I couldn't do it with quite the concentration of the Danes, who will play two or three quartets per sitting, in six concerts put on by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Friday through Feb.
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Vijay Iyer, a pianist and composer who was DownBeat magazine's top jazz artist of 2012, 2015 and 2016, shines in acoustic jazz settings but also excels at electronic music and collaborates with string quartets, film-makers and poets.
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The album, which also contains Mr. Johnston's sixth and eighth quartets and a short piece for voice and strings called "Quietness," marks the completion of one of the most ambitious and single-minded recording projects in American music.
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The Kepler players — the violinists Sharan Leventhal and Eric Segnitz, the violist Brek Renzelman and the cellist Karl Lavine — dedicated the better part of the past 14 years to learning and recording all of Mr. Johnston's 10 quartets.
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For parents who need the flexibility of three-row crossovers to haul scout troops and high school jazz quartets, Mazda — the BMW for the rest of us — gives driving enthusiasts a gift with the second-generation CX-9.
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One of the most powerful new releases to cross my desk recently is "Voices of Defiance," on the Cedille label, a look by this impressive young foursome at string quartets from the end of the Second World War.
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It is a select company that includes the cellist Yo-Yo Ma; the pianists Emanuel Ax, André Watts, Yefim Bronfman and Jeremy Denk; the violinists Midori, Joshua Bell and Gil Shaham; and the Emerson String and Kronos quartets.
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Most of the crowd was paired off—young couples recovering from dramatic evenings, older couples with children in tow, and even couples of couples, quartets of middle-aged friends who talked politics in total agreement with one another.
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ARTS & LEISURE An article last Sunday about the difficult string quartets composed by Ben Johnston, some of which are on a new CD by the Kepler Quartet, misspelled the surname of a violinist in the quartet at one point.
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Among the names in residence this year was the Heath Quartet, perhaps the most impressive and dynamic of the newer British string quartets, performing concerts in the evening (but as a trio, because the group's second violinist was unwell).
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Bard SummerScape 2018 — courtesy of Gideon Lester, Bard's artistic director for theater and dance — has cooked up a grand collaboration this July: The first authorized dance performance based on T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets," a masterpiece exploring time and memory.
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Naturally, there is an important role for artists and ensembles that focus by choice on contemporary music: strings quartets like Kronos and JACK; larger groups like ICE (the International Contemporary Ensemble), Alarm Will Sound and the American Composers Orchestra.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Photographs of dead and missing Thai rights activists have spurred a Canadian composer to create a music album and invite string quartets around the world to perform to draw attention to the violence campaigners face.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: I was at the Morgan Library examining the Beethoven and Mozart manuscripts when I noticed a man standing near me who looked familiar — someone, I thought, I had probably met years ago playing string quartets.
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One of the outstanding young quartets in the United States returns to the Peoples' Symphony — with its eminently reasonable ticket prices — to perform Haydn and Shostakovich, as well as Brahms's Clarinet Quintet, with Richard Stoltzman as the wind soloist.
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After last year's acclaimed collaboration with the pianist Simone Dinnerstein — an evening-length work set to Bach's "Goldberg" Variations — her latest source of inspiration is Eliot's beloved "Four Quartets," a 75-year-old poetic exploration of time and memory.
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Interwoven with that is the story of Beethoven's 16 string quartets, works of extraordinary power written over a quarter-century that moved the genre on from the earlier masters and are now regarded as the apogee of the chamber-music repertoire.
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And while other quartets have done their own cycles — there are recorded sets by ensembles including the Angeles String Quartet, the Kodaly Quartet and the Aeolian String Quartet, among others — it was a still a bold move for a young group.
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On record, it has set down roguish Haydn and poised Brahms, as well as Scandinavian folk music, a Dacapo release called "Wood Works," and an outstanding survey of first quartets by Thomas Adès, Per Norgard and Hans Abrahamsen, on ECM.
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Here's a preview from the pianist Alexei Lubimov's recording of music by C.P.E. Bach: Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim looks at the sorry fate of the underappreciated viola, which has a problem on its hands when it gets solos in string quartets.
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"Monk," the latest treat, features a 1963 performance at a concert hall in Copenhagen, from a tour featuring one of the iconic pianist's most tightly knit quartets: Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, John Ore on bass and Frankie Dunlop on drums.
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On paper, the Miller concert looked like an incomplete portrait — just a few string quartets and a couple of works for voice and percussion — but it came as close as I could imagine to conveying the spirit of Ms. Shaw's music.
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One of the most literal examples of poetic influence on Guston is T.S. Eliot's "East Coker," the second poem of his "Four Quartets" and which Guston used as a title for the 1979 painting he made just after his first heart attack.
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Rose Studio In a program note, John Largess, the violist of the impressive Miró Quartet, says that playing Alberto Ginastera's cycle of three quartets is a "sonic ritual" embodying the "spirit of magical realism" exemplified by Latin American writers like Gabriel García Márquez.
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"Four Quartets," the classic series of poems by T. S. Eliot that meditate on time and faith, receives a unique theatrical interpretation by the choreographer Pam Tanowitz, the composer Kaija Saariaho and the painter Brice Marden as part of Bard College's SummerScape program.
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Youngish string quartets abound, but few cultivate as distinct an identity as the Spektral Quartet: Its members not only focus on contemporary music, but also cherish any opportunity to champion the Chicago new-music scene, of which they are a crucial part.
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A program that plays to the technical strengths of the Emersons features quartets by Ravel and Berg in the first half, and Brahms's Piano Quintet in the second, for which they are joined by Marc-André Hamelin, who is replacing Yefim Bronfman.
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During a summerlong immersion in Wandelweiser recordings—they appear on a house label, Edition Wandelweiser, and also on Another Timbre, Erstwhile, Gravity Wave, and other small labels—I became addicted to the string quartets of Jürg Frey, a Swiss composer and clarinettist.
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Richter's work is already steeped in dreams and elegy, but he doubled down, consulting with the neuroscientist David Eagleman to build its 31 sections, a soft fabric of string quartets, duets for piano and violin, his keyboard wanderings, drones, and the occasional wordless voice.
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Its main structural units are two quartets — three men and a woman, three women and a man — from which all kinds of nice ideas about gender and drama start to arise; when another man and a woman enter, the structure changes and changes again.
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Part of MoMA's Summergarden series of new music, this free concert, by a foursome that was recently in residence at the Juilliard School, consists of works having their first hearings in the United States: quartets by Teizo Matsumura, Alejandro Cardona, Elzbieta Sikora and Marko Nikodijevic.
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On Thursday night Mr. Largess and his Miró colleagues brought that description to life with fiercely intense accounts of Ginastera's three quartets at the intimate Rose Studio, where they were presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in its series of string quartet cycles.
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His instrumental compositions include string quartets; 10 symphonies, the last completed in 2013, when Mr. Davies was already ill with leukemia; the Strathclyde Concertos, a cycle of 20053 concertos for various solo instruments — the violin concerto was recorded by Isaac Stern — and works for solo piano.
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Her "Four Quartets," which had its world premiere this summer, was, to my mind, the most sublime dance-theater creation this century: a dance for the soul — a changing stage world in which dance, music and the words of T.S. Eliot's poems coexisted to profound effect.
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Other highlights include the JACK Quartet, playing two concerts of American string quartets of the 20th and 21st centuries; performances by new-music ensembles including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Either/Or and Yarn/Wire; and early-music concerts by the Tallis Scholars, Orlando Consort and Les Délices.
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On Friday, the New York City Ballet announced that Ms. Tanowitz will create a work for its spring gala on May 2, adding to an impressive list of commissions that Ms. Tanowitz, whose 2018 "Four Quartets" received critical raves, has already notched up for this year.
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The featured ensemble, the JACK Quartet, is one of the most restlessly inventive and versatile new-music string quartets around, and was recently reinvigorated when two fine players, the violinist Austin Wulliman and the cellist Jay Campbell, joined the founding members Christopher Otto (violin) and John Pickford Richards (viola).
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In a golden age for young string quartets — think JACK, Ébène, Escher, Attacca, Doric, Chiara, Spektral, Calidore and many, many more — the Danish String Quartet has drawn almost unanimous critical praise, particularly for its performances of Nielsen, Beethoven and others with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
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Almost 2130 years ago, the men of the Danish String Quartet — they were in their 1305s, at the time, and still called themselves the "Young" Danish — said in an interview that they would need to become more mature before daring to play Beethoven's late string quartets in public.
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Dickey, who brings high-level sensitivity and humor to even the most rambunctious, freewheeling excursions, will play one set on Friday with one of those quartets (Rob Brown on alto saxophone, Steve Swell on trombone and Michael Bisio on bass) and another in duet with the cornetist Kirk Knuffke.whit-dickey.eventbrite.
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A few weeks later Mr. Marden was again in the spotlight, this time closer to home at Bard College, where four of his canvases were transformed into scrims for the new staging of T.S. Eliot's poems "Four Quartets," the work of the choreographer Pam Tanowitz and scenic designer Clifton Taylor.
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One of several superb percussion quartets currently at work, and another heralded West Coast group, this group celebrates a coming album, "Beyond," by making its New York debut with works by Ellen Reid, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Andrew McIntosh, as well as a virtual reality performance of music by Christopher Cerrone.
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In fewer than three hundred pages of cogent prose, Rutherford-Johnson catalogues the bewildering diversity of twenty-first-century composed music, and, more important, makes interpretative sense of a corpus that ranges from symphonies and string quartets to improvisations on smashed-up pianos found in the Australian outback (Ross Bolleter's " Secret Sandhills ").
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Alongside some more routine Mendelssohn and Schumann, this bargain People's Symphony Concert includes two quartets from that album: one written in 2854 by Viktor Ullmann, who died in Auschwitz the following year; and another by Simon Laks, written in 27799, after he had survived Auschwitz, where he led the prisoners' orchestra, and Dachau.
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I noticed, walking past the stately facades of West End Avenue, the unmannerly slashing chords in the first movement of Op. 18, No. 4, and passages of simple charm amid the complexity (even madness) of the late quartets, like the little late-night, post-party dance melody in the final movement of Op. 135.
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The season begins with the pianist Shai Wosner and also includes the cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan; the pianists Vladimir Feltsman, Kirill Gerstein and Lise de la Salle; the Rosamunde, Dover and Juilliard quartets; the clarinetist Jörg Widmann with the pianist Gilles Vonsattel; and, in Ives sonatas, the violinist Stefan Jackiw and the pianist Jeremy Denk. Oct.
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Alongside performances of landmark quartets by Beethoven, Bartok and Shostakovich are the New York premiere of a newly commissioned piece by Mark-Anthony Turnage, a romp through the teenage exuberance of Mendelssohn's Octet together with the young Calidore String Quartet, and a get-out-your-hankies reunion with the Emerson's longtime cellist, David Finckel, in Schubert's gorgeous Cello Quintet.
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Julia Wolfe has become most notable in recent years for working on a large scale, particularly with "Fire in My Mouth" and her Pulitzer Prize-winning "Anthracite Fields," but here is an opportunity to delve deep into her chamber music, with a first-ever concert of her complete string quartets performed by the contemporary foursome Ethel.
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But with Let Me Go, he presents a new side, one that creates the perfect atmosphere for this dramatic film, in which a woman and her daughter have to confront the Nazi past of the mother, who abandoned her four-year old daughter to join the SS. In this soundtrack, Selway explores instruments like the acoustic guitar and string quartets.
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