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Leipzig String Quartet

Leipsig String Quartet portrait over stairs
Performance Date: Sat, March 7th 09 Directions FULL DETAILS
Performance Time: 8:00 pm
Ticket Price: $75, $55, $25
Venue Name: MCASD Sherwood Auditorium

About the Performance

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.

Program

PROGRAM NOTES
HAYDN Quartet in B Major Op. 76, No. 4, “Sunrise”
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3
MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80

Prelude: 7 pm

More Info

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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