After over a decade of performances and residencies in the world’s most esteemed venues and festivals, the release of numerous critically acclaimed recordings and lauded with significant awards, the Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast repertory; from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated contemporary voices like Grygory Kurtag, Jörg Widmann and Caroline Shaw.
Opening Concert for String Quartet Seminar
BEETHOVEN: String Quartets 7-9 Op. 59 1-3
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F major, Op. 59, No. 1 "Razumovsky"
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 "Razumovsky"
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C major, Op. 59, No. 3 "Razumovsky"
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1, "Razumovsky"
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2, "Razumovsky"
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3, "Razumovsky"
As a group, we worked very hard to find a stylistic and sound aesthetic that was different but related when moving from the early quartets to the late quartets, because we also wanted our sound concept to evolve toward the later works that point toward Romanticism. And we also wanted to honor the traditions of the Classical style, which we studied quite a lot, and to emphasize the idea that all of these influences were in one person and to show where Beethoven went with them.
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