Tickets are now on sale for this summer’s Mostly Mozart Festival featuring the Music Director Louis Langrée, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Emerson String Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble, and more.
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Lincoln Center’s 2013-14 Great Performers Season is unveiled! Next season features more than 30 events between October and June, featuring world-class orchestras and chamber ensembles, virtuoso recitals and the extraordinary artistry of the art song on film. Learn more about next season’s exciting events here and scroll through the photos for a sampling of the artists ahead!
(Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco)
Check out what The New York Times’ Vivien Schweitzer had to say in today’s paper about last Monday night’s beloved Emerson String Quartet performance in Alice Tully Hall. For one of the works, Schweitzer wrote, the Quartet “offered an ideally balanced interpretation: somber and mournful, more dignified than sentimental.”
Lincoln Center’s 2012 Mostly Mozart Festival season continues tonight with a Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra performance conducted by Osmo Vänskä. The Festival runs through next Saturday.
Tonight, the Emerson String Quartet brings an end to its fantastic three-part series at Lincoln Center’s Great Performers exploring the later string quartets of Mozart and Beethoven.
The New York Times has described them as “one of the most impressive of American string quartets.”
Tonight’s program should bring the series to a grand finale!
On Sunday, April 29, the Emerson String Quartet performs its third and final concert exploring the later string quartets of Mozart and Beethoven. To bring the series to a close, there will be a post-concert discussion with the Emerson String Quartet.
In this clip, the Quartet perform Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 11 in C major.
The Emerson String Quartet certainly cuts an impressive figure, with an unmatched list of achievements over three decades, including nine Grammy Awards, three Gramophone Awards and the coveted Avery Fisher Prize.
Watch them in action during one of their recordings.
Tonight, the Quartet performs the second concert in its three-part series on the string quartets of Mozart and Beethoven on Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series.
“…with musicians like this there must be some hope for humanity” - The London Times
“Few string quartets have regularly displayed such individuality among members — an ideal stance for coloring and differentiating the complex strands of the fugues” - The Philadelphia Inquirer
It seems the critics are in agreement about the Emerson String Quartet!
The Emerson performs three Alice Tully Hall concerts exploring the string quartets of Mozart and Beethoven. The second of these will take place on Wednesday, April 4.
As part of Great Performers, the Emerson String Quartet explores Mozart’s and Beethoven’s greatest compositions for string quartets in three profound, not-to-be-missed programs. The first of these three concerts is on Sunday, March 21.
In this clip, the Quartet performs Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 3, III.
(Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco)
JUST RELEASED: The Emerson String Quartet will perform late quartets of Mozart and Beethoven on March 21, April 4 and 29 in Alice Tully Hall, as part of the 2012 Great Performers series.
Lincoln Center presents Great Performers favorite the Emerson String Quartet in three programs featuring the late quartets of Mozart and Beethoven this spring in Alice Tully Hall.
In their 35th season together—Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violin; Lawrence Dutton, viola and David Finckel, cello—begin the series on Wednesday, March 21 at 7:30pm with Mozart’s Quartet in D major, K.575 (“Prussian”) in concert with Beethoven’s Quartets in E-flat major, Op.127, and A minor, Op.132. The series continues on April 4 and April 23.
(Read the entire press release here.)
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