The performances were everything we have come to expect from this superb ensemble: technically resourceful, musically insightful, cohesive, full of character and always interesting. —The New York Times
The Emerson String Quartet returns for its 35th year at the Smithsonian when it opens a five-concert series on Saturday, October 25, at Baird Auditorium.
Violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violist Lawrence Dutton, and cellist Paul Watkins perform a season that displays the range and unparalleled musicianship of an ensemble that has been hailed as “the one indispensable quartet” by Newsweek.
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SUBSCRIPTION CODE (5 concerts): BPN6
SEASON CALENDAR
Sat., Oct. 25, 2014
Solo recital with Eugene Drucker, violin, and special guest Diane Walsh, piano
Works by Bach, Brahms, and Saint-Saëns
Sun., Dec. 7, 2014
Bach: The Art of Fugue (selections)
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat Major, Op. 130, with “Grosse Fugue,” Op. 133
Sat., Jan. 10, 2015
Mozart: String Quartet No. 14 in G Major (“Spring”), K. 387
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 108
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127
Sat., Apr. 18, 2015
Haydn: String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 33 “Joke”
Berg: Lyric Suite for String Quartet (1923)
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor (“Heiliger Dankgesang”), Op. 132
Sun., May 10, 2015
With special guests Paul Neubauer, viola, and Colin Carr, cello
Mozart: String Quintet No. 6 in E-flat Major, K. 614 (“Harp”) 4a
Lowell Liebermann: New String Quartet (2014), Washington D.C. premiere
Tchaikovsky: Sextet for Strings, Op. 70, “Souvenir de Florence”
All programs subject to change.
