Haydn Voyages

How is a conversation between four instruments built? The season opens with the elegance and wit of two masters of the Classical style, Boccherini and Haydn, before Morton Feldman’s Structures strips the quartet down to its barest sonic essentials in his meditative, quiet landscape. Caroline Shaw’s intricately textured Punctum (2013) reimagines a Bach chorale through a lens of contemporary deconstruction, while Beethoven’s Op. 18, No. 4 offers a thrilling end to the afternoon.

Luigi Boccherini – Quartet in G Major, G. 223 “La Tiranna” (1792)

Joseph Haydn – Quartet No. 50 in B♭ major, Op. 64, No. 3 (1790)

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Morton Feldman – Structures for String Quartet (1951)

Caroline Shaw – Punctum (2013)

Ludwig van Beethoven – Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4 (1800)