This year’s Quartet Week features six acclaimed ensembles who will explore a wide-ranging selection of works from the rich quartet repertoire in the Pierre Boulez Saal’s intimate setting. With celebrated masterpieces of the genre performed side by side with contemporary and recent pieces, the program reveals surprising connections and echoes across different styles and eras.

With the string quartets of his later years, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart helped lay the foundations for the revolutionary innovations that would shape the quartet genre over the following decades. In its Pierre Boulez Saal debut, the Spanish Cuarteto Casals opens the Quartet Week, performing these classic works over the course of two days.