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MUSIC PROGRAMS FOR THE 2009-10 SEASON


TOKYO STRING QUARTET
September 15, 2009


Haydn Op. 76 #4 (Sunrise)
Mendelssohn No. 3 in D Major, Op 44 #1

----Intermission----

Beethoven No. 7 in F Major, Op 59 #1


AMERICAN STRING QUARTET
October 13, 2009

Haydn: Quartet No. 50 in B-Flat Major, Op. 64 #3
Prokofiev: Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92

----Intermission----

Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81
With Menachem Pressler

 

PAVEL HAAS QUARTET
November 12, 2009

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Schubert Quartet in C minor, D. 703  “Quartettsatz”
Haydn Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, #2  “Quinten”
Britten Three Divertimenti

----Intermission----

Pavel Haas Quartet No. 2, Op. 7

 

BOSTON CAMERATA
December 8, 2009

A Mediterranean Holiday Program:
Christian, Sephardic (Jewish) and Muslim Music



BORROMEO STRING QUARTET
January 19, 2010

Bartok Quartet No. 2, Op. 17
Webern Langsamer Satz

----Intermission----

Schumann Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41

 

TRIO SOLISTI
February 9, 2010

Rachmaninoff Trio #1
Turina Trio No. 2 in B minor, Op. 76
Piazzolla Four Seasons

----Intermission----

Brahms Trio   No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87

 

ARTEMIS QUARTET
March 9, 2010

Beethoven Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95“Quartetto Serioso”
Beethoven Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major,  Op. 127

----Intermission----

Beethoven Quartet No. 9  in C Major, Op. 59 #3“Razumovsky”

 

BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
April 6, 2010

Schumann:  Quartet No. 2 in F-Major, Op. 41, No. 2
Hartke:  New work (composed for Brentano Quartet)

----Intermission----     

Mendelssohn:  String Quintet No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 87
With James Dunham

 

EMERSON STRING QUARTET
April 27, 2010

Dvorak “Cypresses” (6 selections)
Janacek String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters”

----Intermission----

Dvorak “Cypresses” (3 selections)
Dvorak String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51*

 

*Nicknamed the lemon soda quartet by Kasper Arbenz

 

 

All performances begin at 8pm in the Stude Concert Hall
at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University.

 

 

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