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About the Performance |
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Lauded as "one of the towering and most
versatile quartets of our time" the Leipzig String Quartet brings fire and fearless virtuosity to the music of Haydn, Beethoven and Mendelssohn's stormy last chamber work, the String Quartet Op. 80.
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Program
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PROGRAM NOTES |
| HAYDN
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Quartet in B Major Op. 76, No. 4, “Sunrise” |
| BEETHOVEN |
String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3
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| MENDELSSOHN
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String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80 |
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Prelude: 7 pm
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More Info |
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Steve Cassedy, Associate Dean of the Graduate Division at the University of California San Diego and an accomplished pianist, discusses the music the Leipzig Quartet will perform. (This replaces Thomas May's lecture)
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