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The Axelrod String Quartet 2013-2014 Concert Series

37th Season

3 sessions, from November 3, 2013, ​to March 23, 2014​
Code: BPN5
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$132
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$168
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The 3 programs included in this series are:

Evening Performance

View this year's Axelrod String Quartet concerts!
November 3, 2013 - ​6:30 p.m. ​to 9:30 p.m. ET​
Session details

Smithsonian Chamber Music Society audiences are privy to the unparalleled experience of hearing two magnificent quartets of instruments—one made by Antonio Stradivari, the other by his teacher Nicolo Amati—in this popular three-concert series. This performance features music by Haydn, Britten, and Louis Spohr.

Evening Performance

View this year's Axelrod String Quartet concerts!
January 12, 2014 - ​6:30 p.m. ​to 9:30 p.m. ET​
Session details

Smithsonian Chamber Music Society audiences are privy to the unparalleled experience of hearing two magnificent quartets of instruments—one made by Antonio Stradivari, the other by his teacher Nicolo Amati—in this popular three-concert series. In this Axelrod String Quartet concert, hear specific works by Haydn, Schubert, and Dvorak.

Evening Performance

View this year's Axelrod String Quartet concerts!
March 23, ​2014 - 6:30 p.m., ​to June 30, ​2014 - 9:30 p.m. ET​
Session details

Smithsonian Chamber Music Society audiences are privy to the unparalleled experience of hearing two magnificent quartets of instruments—one made by Antonio Stradivari, the other by his teacher Nicolo Amati—in this popular three-concert series. In this Axelrod String Quartet concert, hear specific works by Haydn, Bartok, and Ravel.  

Smithsonian Chamber Music Society audiences are privy to the unparalleled experience of being able to hear two magnificent quartets of instruments—one made by Antonio Stradivari, the other by his teacher Nicolo Amati—in this popular three-concert series.

The Axelrod String QuartetOver the course of the season, the Axelrod Quartet performs the last three Haydn quartets, the two unsurpassed members of Op. 77, and the unfinished Op. 103. The November concert recognizes the 100th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Britten with the second of his three quartets, written for the 250th anniversary of the death of Henry Purcell. The concert also sees the return of the members of the Æolus Quartet, which has been chosen as this season’s sole quartet in the Juilliard Quartet’s prestigious mentoring program. They will join the Axelrod members for the second of Louis Spohr’s double quartets, uniting all eight Stradivarius and Amati instruments for a memorable sonic experience. The January program offers Antonin Dvorak’s F Major Quartet, written while the composer was vacationing in the Czech-populated farming community of Spillville, Iowa in 1893, along with Schubert’s hauntingly beautiful A Minor Quartet. The March program concludes the Haydn mini-cycle, and features two great early-20th-century works by Bartok and Ravel.

The Axelrod String Quartet members
Marc Destrube and Marilyn McDonald, violins; James Dunham, viola; and Kenneth Slowik, violoncello

 

2013-2014 Season Information

 

Sun., Nov. 3
Haydn: Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1
Britten: Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 36
Louis Spohr: Double Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 77
with The Æolus Quartet: Nicholas Tavani and Rachel Shapiro, violins; Gregory Luce, viola; Alan Richardson, violoncello

Sun., Jan. 12
Haydn: Quartet in F Major, Op. 77, No.2
Schubert: Quartet in A Minor, D804, “Rosamunde”
Dvorak: Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, “American"

 

Sun., March 23
Haydn: Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 103
Bartok: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17
Ravel: String Quartet in F Major

 

 

 

Full Series (3 concerts; CODE: BPN5)

Programs, locations, and artists subject to change.