Guarneri String Quartet March 31, 2007

A Peoples' Symphony Concert
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$9

Program
Beethoven: Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2
Beethoven: Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131

Guarneri String Quartet

The renowned Guarneri String Quartet “is among the most revered and enduring ensembles of its kind in the world” (National Public Radio) and has circled the globe countless times since it was formed in 1964, playing in the most prestigious halls in North and South America, Mexico, Europe, Asia and Australia. Their 40th Anniversary was celebrated during the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons, in which they continued touring extensively throughout the United States, Europe and in May 2005 to South America. The Quartet has been featured on many television and radio specials, documentaries and educational presentations both in North America and abroad. They have been interviewed by Charles Kuralt on CBS’ nationwide television program, Sunday Morning. A full-length film entitled High Fidelity – The Guarneri String Quartet was released nationally, to great critical and public acclaim, in the fall of 1989 (the film was directed and produced by Allan Miller who was also the director/producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary, From Mozart to Mao, which dealt with Isaac Stern’s visit to China). The quartet is also the subject of various books including Quartet by Helen Drees Ruttencutter (Lippincott & Crowell, 1980), The Art of Quartet Playing: the Guarneri in Conversation with David Blum (Alfred A. Knopf, 1986) and Arnold Steinhardt’s Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998). The Guarneri String Quartet has recorded for Surrounded by Entertainment, which released a CD in Spring 2001 of Quartets by Ravel, Debussy and Fauré. Several of its recordings on both RCA Red Seal and Philips have won international awards, including its recent recording of Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga’s String Quartet Nos. 1-3 (Philips), which won the 1996 Deutsche Schallplattenkritik Award in Germany. Among its other award-winning recordings are collaborations with such artists as Artur Rubinstein, Pinchas Zukerman; and Boris Kroyt and Mischa Schneider of the Budapest Quartet. They have also recorded on the Arabesque label Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 3 and its first ever recording of the great Mendelssohn Octet, Op. 20, in collaboration with the Orion Quartet. The Quartet currently continues their longstanding series and residency at the University of Maryland where they are on the faculty.

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