Stradivari Anniversary Concert

A recent focus in the Borromeo Quartet's intensive study of composers’ manuscripts is a concentration on the six magisterial quartets of Béla Bartók, including the Fifth Quartet, a landmark Library of Congress Coolidge Foundation commission.

Join us for this unique event—a once-in-a-lifetime chance to hear all six Bartók quartets on the Library’s Strads.

Pre-concert lecture at 6:00 PM by Nicholas Kitchen of the Borromeo String Quartet on "Bartόk: Paths Not Taken."

String Quartet No. 1, Sz. 40

I. Lento
II. Poco a poco accelerando all'allegretto
III. Introduzione. Allegro - Allegro vivace
*Composed in 1909, when Bartók was around 28 years old
30 minutes (approximately)

String Quartet No. 2, Sz. 67

I. Moderato
II. Allegro molto capriccioso
III. Lento
*Composed in 1917, when Bartók was around 36 years old
26 minutes (approximately)

INTERMISSION

String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85

I. Prima parte: Moderato
II. Seconda Parte: Allegro
III. Ricapitulazione della prima parte: Moderato
IV. Coda: Allegro molto
*Composed in 1927, when Bartók was around 46 years old
15 minutes (approximately)

String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91

I. Allegro
II. Prestissimo con sordino
III. Non troppo lento
IV. Allegretto pizzicato
V. Allegro molto
*Composed in 1928, when Bartók was around 47 years old
23 minutes (approximately)

INTERMISSION

String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102

I. Allegro
II. Adagio molto
III. Scherzo. Alla bulgarese
IV. Andante
V. Finale. Allegro vivace
*Composed in 1934, when Bartók was around 53 years old
30 minutes (approximately)

String Quartet No. 6, Sz. 114

I. Mesto - Più mosso, pesante - Vivace
II. Mesto - Marcia
III. Mesto - Burletta
IV. Mesto
*Composed in 1939, when Bartók was around 58 years old
29 minutes (approximately)

PIANO TRIOS

Alexander Beyer (Piano); Nicholas Kitchen (Violin); and Yeesun Kim (Cello)

JOSEPH HAYDN
Piano Trio No. 45 in E-flat major, Hob. XV:29

CHARLES IVES
Piano Trio, Op. 86

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, D. 929

GUNTHER SCHULLER
String Quartet No. 4

JOSEPH HAYDN
String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 76, No. 6

BELA BARTOK
String Quartet No. 5 Sz. 102

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130 (original version with Grosse Fuge, premiered in March 1826)

COLLEGE DAYS

Music from and about youth, featuring piano trios by Charles E. Ives (from 1904-11), Leonard Bernstein (1937), and Claude Debussy.

Advance ticket purchase strongly encouraged.

An Evening of Vaughan Williams

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Six Studies in English Folksong

– Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek (Piano), Yeesun Kim (Cello)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A minor

– Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek (Piano), Nicholas Kitchen (Violin)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Mystical Songs (5)

– Michael Meraw (Baritone), Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek (Piano)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Quintet for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass in C minor

– Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek (Piano), Nicholas Kitchen (Violin), Mai Motobuchi (Viola), Yeesun Kim (Cello), Hugo Abraham (Double Bass)

MEMORIES AND VISIONS

The Borromeo Quartet performs the String Quartet No. 4 by Pulitzer Prize-winner and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient Gunther Schuller, and String Quartet No. 3 (música fúnebre y nocturna) by Copland House Resident Jorge Villacencio Grossmann (winner of the 2013 Copland House/Borromeo Quartet Award)

Advance ticket purchase strongly encouraged.

John Heiss: Microcosms

Richard Stoltzman (Clarinet), Mika Yoshida (Marimba), Borromeo String Quartet

Thomas McKinley: Haiku Cycle
Richard Stoltzman (Clarinet), Mika Yoshida (Marimba)

Thomas McKinley: Mostly Blues
Richard Stoltzman (Clarinet), Mika Yoshida (Marimba)

Tchaikovsky: Quartet for Strings no 2 in F major, Op. 22
Borromeo String Quartet

Performing on electric instruments, BSQ gives a tour of J.S. Bach's St. Anne Fugue.

Free & open to public.

J. S. BACH
Brandenburg Concerto no 4 in G major, BWV 1049

Renée Krimsier (Flute), Paula Robison (Flute), John Gibbons (Harpsichord), Nicholas Kitchen (Violin), Ayano Ninomiya (Violin), Donald Weilerstein (Violin), Mai Motobuchi (Viola), Yeesun Kim (Cello), Donald Palma (Double Bass)

JOHANNES BRAHMS:
Liebeslieder Waltzes (18), Op. 52

Lisa Saffer (Soprano), Erica Brookhyser (Mezzo Soprano), Bradley Williams (Tenor), Michael Meraw (Baritone), Tanya Blaich (Piano), Cameron Stowe (Piano)

JEAN SIBELIUS
Quartet for Strings in D minor, Op. 56 "Voces intimae"

Ayano Ninomiya (Violin), Donald Weilerstein (Violin), Kim Kashkashian (Viola), Yeesun Kim (Cello)

Residency activities

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130 (original version, premiered in March 1826, with Grosse Fuge ending)

GUNTHER SCHULLER
"Canzona" from String Quartet No. 3 (1986)

ANTONIN DVOŘÁK
String Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 97, "American" (1893)

NOTE: At 3:00 PM there will be a pre-concert conversation with the Borromeo Quartet.

J. S. BACH: Fugue in C-sharp minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 849
arranged for string quartet by Nicholas Kitchen.

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat major, Op. 133)

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130 (original version, premiered in March 1826)

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 76, No. 6 (1797)

Gunther Schuller: String Quartet No. 4 (2002)

Pyotr Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11 (1871)

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN

String Quartet no.67 in F major, op.77, no.2

Allegro moderato

Menuetto. Presto ma non troppo

Andante

Finale. Vivace assai

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

String Quartet no.15 in A minor, op.132

Assai sostenuto - Allegro

Allegro ma non tanto

Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart: Molto adagio - Neue Kraft Fühlend: Andante - Molto adagio - Andante - Molto adagio: Mit innigster Empfindung

Alla marcia, assai vivace - Più allegro - Presto

Allegro appassionato - Presto