The LaSalle String Quartet II; Vivaldi, Webern, and Beethoven, part 1

From Cincinnati we present the fifth of six programs by the last sow string quartet the series is produced by WG U.S. the University of Cincinnati radio station. The programs are made possible by contributions from the friends of WGA U.S. a la Sal quartet is now in its 13th year of residence at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and the quartet members are Walter Levine and Henry Meyer violins. Peter can it serve Viola and Jack Kirsteen cello. Later in the program we are to hear five movements for string quartet by Weber's and the quartet in F major opus 59 number 1 by Beethoven. In the period between sixteen hundred fifty and sixteen Eighty the so not a quite the role and joy great popularity. It could be played by a small orchestral ensemble or by four instruments with or without the additional continual realising the bass part. The poor

instruments were often paired into rivaling groups that alternated in the matter of the miniature concertina. This particular Sonata entitled El Santos a polkadot is in Lat Major with the introduction marked Largo motel and the main section we hear now those appalled at all of Antonio Vivaldi. As played by the last Zahau string quartet. You are. Thanks.

Santoso hold on probably only played by the last train or track. They Burton's five movements for string quartet was composed in the year one thousand eight hundred nine only four years after the highly chromatic romantic early string quartet of 105. These five movements show of Abram's characteristics already fully developed the extreme concentration and in the third movement his precise brevity in a letter to a friend wrote in one thousand thirty four twenty five years after completion of the five movements. I am happy that my quartet made such an impression on you. It is now a quarter of a century since I wrote it. Since it has always been connected with a great deal of controversy even up to the present I don't really have the feeling that it has been so long since I wrote it. And I myself I'm actually only now in a position to account more exactly for what I did then. And yet it seems

to me I listen to the piece now no differently than I did twenty five years ago. Those are the words they will hear this work now. Five movements for a string quartet Opus five of a burn in performance the last string quartet. Why.

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favorite. Beethoven's three quartets Opus 59 were composed in the amazingly short time between May and December eighteen hundred six contrasts a mosque the Russian ambassador in Vienna to whom they are dedicated not only commissioned these works but also participated in their first performance as second violinist in the Russian musky quartet led by the famed you pansy. It is not certain whether the count specified the inclusion of the Russian theme found in the finale of the quartet or whether Beethoven merely sought to please his noble patron. We conclude this program by the last South string quartet with a performance of the quartet in F major opus 59 number 1 by Beethoven.