Verona Quartet
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Performers
Verona Quartet
·· Jonathan Ong, Violin
·· Dorothy Ro, Violin
·· Abigail Rojansky, Viola
·· Jonathan Dormand, Cello
Program
BACEWICZ String Quartet No. 4
BARTÓK String Quartet No. 3
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1, "Razumovsky"
Encore:
WU MAN "Chebiyat Muqam – Muqaddima" from Glimpses of Muqam Chebiyat
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately two hours, including one 20-minute intermission.At a Glance
BACEWICZ String Quartet No. 4
Grażyna Bacewicz described herself as a “progressive composer” who continued to absorb new styles and stimuli throughout her life. The Fourth Quartet of 1951—with its accessible blend of folk elements, rhythmic vitality, and imaginative post-tonal harmonies—plies a middle course between the lowbrow “socialist realism” mandated by postwar Poland’s Communist regime and the composer’s sophisticated interest in form and structure.
BARTÓK String Quartet No. 3
Composed in the summer of 1927, the third of Bartók’s six quartets was influenced by the imaginatively colored sound world of Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite, which the Hungarian had heard in Vienna earlier that year. What Theodor Adorno called the quartet’s “iron concentration” and “wholly original tectonics” are reflected in its highly compressed form.
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1, “Razumovsky”
The three quartets that Beethoven composed in 1806 for Russian Count Andrey Razumovsky marked a turning point both in his stylistic development and in the evolution of the string quartet, and exerted a seminal influence on composers like R. Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, and Brahms. Like its companions, the F-Major “Razumovsky” Quartet illustrates the boldly iconoclastic style of Beethoven’s so-called middle period.