Extra Notes?
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
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According to Johannes Brahms, "It is not hard to compose, but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table." Any extra notes in his First String Sextet?
Listen to that sextet this evening, as performed by violinists Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Benny Kim, violists Masao Kawasaki and Ryo Sasaki, and cellists Mats Lidstrom and Eric Kim. If you’d like to hear it live as well, an equally distinguished set of performers will be playing it at Columbia University's Miller Theater on Saturday, March 19.
The Emerson String Quartet will be performing at Zankel Hall on Tuesday, March, 22nd. This evening, we present their take on Haydn's String Quartet in G. Philip Setzer, one of the group's violinists, says of Haydn, contrasting him to Mozart and Beethoven: "I never get the sense that I have to deal with his ego... he's a great, great genius— but he seems more like one of us."
According to Johannes Brahms, "It is not hard to compose, but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table." Any extra notes in his First String Sextet?
Listen to that sextet this evening, as performed by violinists Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Benny Kim, violists Masao Kawasaki and Ryo Sasaki, and cellists Mats Lidstrom and Eric Kim. If you’d like to hear it live as well, an equally distinguished set of performers will be playing it at Columbia University's Miller Theater on Saturday, March 19.
The Emerson String Quartet will be performing at Zankel Hall on Tuesday, March, 22nd. This evening, we present their take on Haydn's String Quartet in G. Philip Setzer, one of the group's violinists, says of Haydn, contrasting him to Mozart and Beethoven: "I never get the sense that I have to deal with his ego... he's a great, great genius— but he seems more like one of us."
