MATTHEW BROWNE Great Danger, Keep Out ERBERK ERYILMAZ Miniatures Set No. 4 BARTÓK String Quartet No. 6 DVOŘÁK String Quartet in A-flat major, Op. 105
Folk music has always provided an inspiring repository of material for classical musicians. Perhaps the one composer who made the most of his exposure to traditional peasant music was Béla Bartók, who spent years traveling throughout Eastern Europe collecting the traditional music of the peasant population far from the urban centers.
HAYDN String Quartet in D major, Op. 20 No. 4 MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2 WEBERN Six Bagatelles, Op. 9 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C major, Op. 59 No. 3
If Joseph Haydn is considered the “father of the string quartet,” then his progeny would certainly include Beethoven and Mendelssohn. This program explores the development of the string quartet through these three generations.
SCHUBERT Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703 HAYDN String Quartet in D major, Op. 20 No. 4 MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2
This program seeks to explore the seeds of romanticism while they are still fresh on their journey into the world. Schubert and Mendelssohn owe their understanding of the string quartet genre to paradigms Haydn established a half-century earlier.