Classical Saturday | Curtis@Woodmere: An Evening of Mozart, Beethoven, and Britten

 

Enjoy an evening with The Erinys Quartet, currently in residence at the Curtis Institute of Music. They will be performing a program of string quartet favorites, including Mozart’s Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 589, which he wrote under financial stress in hopes of flattering and gaining a position in the court of Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II, an amateur cellist. The first half of their program will finish with Benjamin Britten’s second-string quartet, a tribute to the English composer Henry Purcell. The second half of the program will conclude the concert with Beethoven’s Op. 127, one of his legendary "late quartets" that comprise some of the composer's greatest musical achievements, written during the final years of his life when he was almost completely deaf.

 

Erinys Quartet appears by special arrangement with Curtis Artist Management at Curtis Institute of Music.