JERUSALEM STRING QUARTET
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.
Pre-concert Lecture at 7:00 p.m.
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
Program
BEETHOVEN Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No.2
DEBUSSY String Quartet
BRAHMS Quartet in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2
About The Jerusalem Quartet
Four virtuosi still in their 20s – three from the former Soviet Union and one from La Jolla – make up one of the hottest string quartets in the world. A critic from the Vancouver Sun gushed, “Normally it takes years and years to develop such a blend of voices and such a spectrum of colors. They have loads of energy and passion and the control, finesse and sophistication to go with it.” Presumably, Daniel Barenboim agrees; he loaned the favorite cello of his late wife, Jacqueline du Pre, to the quartet’s cellist. Their program includes works by two masters of the genre, along with the only quartet penned by Debussy. In recently ranking this Impressionist among the top ten composers of all time, the Times explained, “With his pioneering harmonic language, the sensual beauty of his sound and his uncanny, Freudian instincts for tapping the unconscious, Debussy was the bridge over which music passed into the tumultuous 20th Century.”