“The Danish play as if they have abandoned their individual personalities entirely to serve the collective—as if they were joined on a single instrument, armed with four bows.””

— New York Times

Program:

Chacony in G Minor for String Quartet (c. 1678) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Henry Purcell (1659–1695)

(arr. Britten, 1948; rev. 1963)

String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, “Sun”, No. 3 (1772) . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)

Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 108 (1960) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)

String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D 810,

“Death and the Maiden” (1824) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Franz Schubert (1797–1828)            

learn more about the artists