Kavakos / Shaham / Tamestit / Ferrández / Weilerstein
Performers
Leonidas Kavakos, Violin
Gil Shaham, Violin
Antoine Tamestit, Viola
Pablo Ferrández, Cello
Alisa Weilerstein, Cello
Program
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47, "Kreutzer" (arr. for string quintet)
SCHUBERT String Quintet in C Major, D. 956
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately two hours, including one 20-minute intermission. Please note that there will be no late seating before intermission.At a Glance
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47, “Kreutzer”
By rights, this bracingly virtuosic work should be called the “Bridgetower” Sonata, since Beethoven wrote it for the celebrated English violinist George Bridgetower. After the two men had a falling out, however, the composer switched the dedication to the French virtuoso Rodolphe Kreutzer—who, ironically, never played the sonata in public. Some scholars believe that Beethoven himself may have made this posthumously published arrangement for string quintet.
SCHUBERT String Quintet in C Major, D. 956
Composed in 1828, the String Quintet in C Major—for the unusual combination of two violins, viola, and two cellos—was Schubert’s last, and arguably greatest, piece of extended chamber music. In neither form nor content can the work be described as lightweight. Clocking in at just under an hour, it is a work of epic proportions and surpassing intensity, wedded to an irrepressible lyrical impulse.