Event details
Brentano String Quartet (Princeton University Concerts)
We open Princeton University Concerts’ 133rd Concert Classics Series with a dream come true: the beloved Brentano String Quartet, returning to their former home stage (1999–2014) for an evening of quiet wonder. Haydn’s “The Dream” flits between wit and reverie; Josef Suk’s Meditation on an Old Czech Hymn draws on a melody centuries old, transforming a prayer for protection into music of profound warmth and hope; Pēteris Vasks’s Meditationfrom his Fourth Quartet (2000) offers a searching reflection on our modern world at the dawn of the 21st century; and Beethoven’s Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2 closes with a slow movement that gazes, rapt and awestruck, at the starry firmament—inviting us to do the same as we begin another season of music together.
Musicians
Mark Steinberg & Serena Canin Violins
Misha Amory Viola
Nina Lee Cello
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Tickets
General: $35 -$56 | Student: $12 | Princeton University Student: Free through Passport to the Arts.
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Program
HAYDN
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 50, No. 5 “The Dream”
JOSEF SUK
Meditation on an Old Czech Hymn ‘St Wenceslas’ for String Quartet, Op. 35a
PĒTERIS VASKS
Meditation from Quartet No. 4
BEETHOVEN
String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2
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