Schumann Quartet: Haydn, Bartók and Schumann

2017/18 Winter Series

Schumann Quartet: Haydn, Bartók and Schumann

Music@Menlo’s 2017–2018 Winter Series culminates in a dramatically varied program performed by the sensational Schumann Quartet in its Music@Menlo debut. The Quartet was awarded a Best Newcomers of the Year award by BBC Music Magazine, and is currently an Ensemble-in-Residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. Their other upcoming engagements include performances with Menahem Pressler at the Berlin Philharmonie, at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and at London’s Wigmore Hall.

PROGRAM

Franz Joseph Haydn(1732–1809)
String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 76, no. 4, Sunrise
Béla Bartók(1881–1945)
String Quartet no. 2, op. 17 (1914–1917)
Robert Schumann(1810–1856)
String quartet in F Major, op. 41, no. 2 (1842)