Brentano Quartet. Courtesy/TSM
Taos School of Music News:
Brentano Quartet has returned to Taos!
Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim.
“Passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding,” raves the London Independent; the New York Times extols its “luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism”; the Philadelphia Inquirer praises its “seemingly infallible instincts for finding the center of gravity in every phrase and musical gesture”; and the Times (London) opines, “the Brentanos are a magnificent string quartet…This was wonderful, selfless music-making.”
The Quartet has performed across five continents in the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington; the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; the Konzerthaus in Vienna; Tokyo’s Suntory hall; and the Sydney Opera House.
Festival appearances include Aspen, the Ojai Music Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Kuhmo Festival in Finland, and the Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music.
And, they’re back in Taos to perform at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 30 at the Taos Center for the Arts with pianist Thomas Sauer, sponsored by Francisco Cordova of Diamond Finish.
“luxuriously warm sound and yearning lyricism” — The New York Times
Repertoire:
- Joseph Haydn – String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3 (“The Bird”)
- Johannes Brahms – Trio in C Minor
- Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in Bb, Op. 130