BERLIN STAATSKAPELLE STRING QUARTET
Arcadiana: Quartets by Adès, Schubert, and Beethoven
Wolfram Brandl
Violin
Krzysztof Specjal
Violin
Yulia Deyneka
Viola
Claudius Popp
Violoncello
Franz Schubert
String Quartet in E-flat major D 87
Thomas Adès
Arcadiana for String Quartet Op. 12
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in C major Op. 59/3
British composer Thomas Adès’s Arcadiana combines musical and nonmusical influences—from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte to the paintings of Poussin and Watteau, to Greek mythology—to evoke paradisiacal scenes. In its second concert of the season, the Berlin Staatskapelle String Quartet performs the piece, written in 1994 and already considered a contemporary classic, alongside 19thcentury quartets by Schubert and Beethoven.
Approximate running time: 1h 40m with one intermission
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