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Leipzig String Quartet
January 24, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Location: Squitieri Studio Theatre
Genre: Classical
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Prices: Reserved seating - $34 (Prices include tax.)
Program:
Overture
Sonata I: Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.
Sequentia from Choralis constantinus – Heinrich Isaac
Sonatta II: Truly, I say to you: today you will be with me in paradise.
Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9 – Anton Webern
Woman, behold your son: behold your mother.
Quartet No. 2, Choral Quartet – Jörg Widmann
Sonata IV: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Excerpt from Officium Breve – György Kurtag
Sonata V: I thirst.
Cavatina from Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 130 – Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata VI: It is finished.
Wenn wir in höchsten Nöthen sein (It is finished) – Johann Sebastian Bach
Il Terremoto (The Earthquake)
Did you know…
Founded in 1988, the Leipzig String Quartet is now widely acclaimed as one of the most exciting string quartets on the international chamber music scene.- Three of its members were first chairs in the famous Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig.
- After studies with Gerhard Bosse, the Amadeus quartet, Hatto Beyerle and Walter Levin, the quartet went on to win numerous prizes and awards, such as the 1991 International ARD Munich competition, and the Busch and Siemens prizes.
- The quartet’s almost 70 recordings, spanning from Mozart to Cage and including the complete works of Brahms, Mozart, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Schubert and the complete Second Viennese School have been met with international critical acclaim. They have brought the group such recognition as the Diapason d’Or and Premios-CD-Compact awards, two nominations for the Cannes Classical Award and the 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2008 ECHO-Klassik awards.
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