Masterclass with violinist Nicholas Kitchen

Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier - 4 sets of preludes and fugues
Ives: String Quartet No. 2
Beethoven String Quartet No.8, Op. 59 No. 2

Bach Motet "Sing to the Lord a new song" arr. for string octet by Nicholas Kitchen

Ives String Quartet No. 2

Beethoven String Quartet No.8, Op. 59 No. 2

Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier B minor Fugue
Beethoven: Rondo from Op 130

Debussy: Quartet for Strings in G minor, Op. 10
Ives: Quartet for Strings no 2
Franck: Quartet for Strings in D major, M 9

Aaron Copland: Two Pieces for String Quartet
Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet (1931)
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
Intermission
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major, Op. 127

Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat, Opus 12 (1829)
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Opus 44, No. 2 (1839)
Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet (1931)
Leonard Bernstein, Yosi, the Jokester (arr. Nicholas Kitchen) (c. 1950)

This is the second concert in a two-year cycle of Mendelssohn's six string quartets. It also features the remarkable lone string quartet of Ruth Crawford Seeger, the American composer of extraordinary forward-looking music.

Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat, Opus 12 (1829)
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Opus 44, No. 2 (1839)
Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet (1931)
Leonard Bernstein, Yosi, the Jokester (arr. Nicholas Kitchen) (c. 1950)

This is the second concert in a two-year cycle of Mendelssohn's six string quartets. It also features the remarkable lone string quartet of Ruth Crawford Seeger, the American composer of extraordinary forward-looking music.

Haydn String Quartet in B-flat Op. 71 No. 1

Ligeti String Quartet No. 2

Beethoven String Quartet No. 12 Op. 127

Jean Francaix : Quintet for clarinet and String Quartet

Claude Debussy : String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10

Sebastian Currier : Etudes and Lullabies (Central Coast Premiere)

Mozart: Quintet in A major for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581

Haydn String Quartet in B flat major, Op 71 No 1
Ligeti String Quartet No 2
Beethoven String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major, Op. 127

Part of a series of 3 Lecture Recitals with violinist Nicholas Kitchen

The lecture on January 11 will be in collaboration with the Pacific Quartet Vienna. The lecture will explore Beethoven Op. 127 and will conclude with a complete performance of the work by the quartet, where the audience will have the opportunity to read Beethoven's manuscript during the whole performance. Beethoven used many detailed expressive markings in his manuscripts and these markings are not reflected in print. There are 20 dynamics instead of 9, four staccato markings instead of 1 or 2, and 2 types of expressive swell pair instead of one. In the discussion, we will share with the audience the working process to try to bring this more varied information into performance.

Part of a series of 3 Lecture Recitals with violinist Nicholas Kitchen

The lecture on January 10 will look at the manuscript of Haydn Op. 71, No. 1 and view it in the context of the Violinschule of Leopold Mozart, and then will jump in time to the working sessions that the Borromeo String Quartet had with György Ligeti himself on Ligeti String Quartet No. 2. Haydn would sometimes provide detailed instructions to performers and other times he would seem to leave everything unresolved. Haydn's approach becomes much more understandable when we read the advice of Leopold Mozart about how to elaborate “unadorned” sections of music. This will be compared with working directly with Ligeti on his own composition.