Sunday, March 26, 2017 8:00 PM
Rackham Auditorium
Beethoven Quartet Cycle
Takács Quartet
Concerts 5 & 6
The World is Here
“Commenting to a friend on the startling originality of his late quartets, Beethoven explained, ‘Art demands of us that we do not stand still.’ No other composer has posed so many questions about the form and emotional content of a string quartet, and come up with so many different answers.
The need we feel to revisit our interpretations of the quartets is inspired in part by the spirit of exploration that runs through them.” (Ed Dusinberre, violinist with the Takács Quartet, in his book Beethoven for a Later Age) With these final two concerts of the Takács Beethoven cycle, the first time in 40 years that UMS has presented the cycle in a single season, audiences will no doubt agree with critic Alex Ross in the New Yorker: “[The Takács Quartet’s] survey, now complete, stands as the most richly expressive modern account of this titanic cycle.”
Pre-Performance Talk. Exploring Beethoven’s String Quartets with Steven Whiting. Saturday, March 25 at 7 pm at Michigan League Koessler Room (3rd floor).
Artist Website
http://www.takacsquartet.com/PROGRAM (Sun 3/26/2017: Rackham Auditorium)
Quartet No. 6 in B-flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6
Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135
Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3
PROGRAM (Sun 3/26/2017: Rackham Auditorium)
Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1
Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major, Op. 130 with Op. 133 “Grosse Fuge”
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