Schumann Quartet

Carte Blanche Concert III

Schumann Quartet

The Schumann Quartet makes its festival debut with a thoughtful survey of the string quartet literature. The program brings together music from a diverse spectrum of voices and spans German Romanticism, early modernism, and American minimalism. This mosaic of musical styles is held together by the timeless music of J. S. Bach, via Mozart’s arrangements of fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier.

PROGRAM

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Fugue in E-flat Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book II), BWV 876 (ca. 1740; arr. Mozart in 1782 as Fugue no. 2, K. 405)
Felix Mendelssohn(1809–1847)
Capriccio in e minor for String Quartet, op. 81, no. 3 (1843)
Johann Sebastian Bach(1685–1750)
Fugue in c minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book II), BWV 871 (ca. 1740; arr. Mozart in 1782 as Fugue no. 1, K. 405)
Philip Glass(Born 1937)
String Quartet no. 2, Company (1983)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Fugue in D Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book II), BWV 874 (ca. 1740; arr. Mozart in 1782 as Fugue no. 5, K. 405)
Dmitry Shostakovich(1906–1975)
Two Pieces for String Quartet (1931)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Fugue in d minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book II), BWV 875 (ca. 1740; arr. Mozart in 1782 as Fugue no. 4, K. 405)
Anton Webern(1883–1945)
Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, op. 9 (1911, 1913)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Fugue in E Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book II), BWV 878 (ca. 1740; arr. Mozart in 1782 as Fugue no. 3, K. 405)
Leoš Janáček(1854–1928)
String Quartet no. 2, Intimate Letters (1928)