Quartetto di Cremona
Fri, Mar 8, 2024, 7:30 pm
Alice Tully Hall
2 hours, including intermission
Our Winter Festival presents four spectacular ensembles whose artistry is lighting the way for the next generation of string quartets.
Following a memorable CMS debut in the 2021–22 season, the Quartetto di Cremona returns, offering a program of impressive breadth and depth. Beginning with one of Osvaldo Golijov’s quartets that explores contrasting realities, the ensemble journeys back to perform a landmark quartet by Shostakovich and concludes with Schubert’s unforgettable “Death and the Maiden.”
Program
Osvaldo Golijov
(b. 1960)Tenebrae for String Quartet
(2002)Dmitri Shostakovich
(1906–1975)Quartet No. 8 in C minor for Strings, Op. 110
(1960)Franz Schubert
(1797–1828)Quartet in D minor for Strings, D. 810, “Death and the Maiden”
(1824)
Quartetto di Cremona
Since its formation in 2000, the Quartetto di Cremona has established a reputation as one of the most exciting chamber ensembles on the international stage. Regularly invited to perform in major music festivals in Europe, North and South America, and Far East, they garner universal acclaim for their high level of interpretive artistry.
“BBT Fellowship” prize winner in 2005, the Quartetto di Cremona received by the Borletti Buitoni Trust also the “Franco Buitoni Award” (2019 edition) for its constant contribution to the promotion of chamber music in Italy and around the world.
In 2020 the Quartetto di Cremona celebrates its first twenty years of career, an important milestone for an Italian ensemble. For the occasion, distinguished concerts and recording projects will be developed over consecutive seasons: several performances of the complete Beethoven quartets’ cycle, CD releases, a tour with Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue”, new music expressly composed for the Quartet. Further 2020/21 season’s highlights include concerts in Geneva, Istanbul, Milan, Rome, London (Wigmore Hall) and the debuts at the Carnegie Hall in New York and at the Rudolfinum in Prague. Numerous are the collaborations with artists of the level of Angela Hewitt, Eckart Runge, David Orlowsky, Emerson Quartet.