Cal Performances | Chamber Music | Brentano String Quartet with Peter Serkin, piano, & Richard Lalli, baritone

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Brentano String Quartet
with Peter Serkin, piano
& Dean Elzinga, bass-baritone

Named after Antonie Brentano, considered by many to be Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved," the Brentano String Quartet was formed in 1992 and soon garnered both the first Cleveland Quartet Award and the Naumburg Chamber Music Award. The group has worked closely with some of the most important composers of our time, and will perform a new and eagerly anticipated work by Charles Wuorinen in Berkeley. Joining the ensemble are pianist Peter Serkin, an artist whose expressive style and range only deepen with each passing year, and gifted baritone Richard Lalli. "A magnificent string quartet...This was wonderful, selfless music making" (The Times, London).

Program: Haydn/Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2 (Quinten); Wuorinen/New Piano Quintet (commissioned by the artists); Schoenberg/"Ode to Napoleon" (for quartet, piano, and baritone); Beethoven/Grosse Fuge, Op. 133

Program Notes
Program notes are available online. [PDF]

Press
Read the NY Times article on Peter Serkin and the Brentano String Quartet performing Charles Wuorinen's Second Piano Quintet.

Audio Clips
( Real One Player)

Haydn/Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2 (Quinten)

Sightlines
Fri, Mar 13, 7-7:30 pm, First Congregational Church
Pre-performance talk by musicologist Camille Peters, UC Berkeley Department of Music. This Sightlines event is free to all event ticket holders.

Education/Community Events
Course with Osher Life Long Learning Institute
Mar 12, 3:30-5 pm, Room 150, University Hall
Prof. Nicholas Matthew, UC Berkeley
Cal Performances continues its partnership with the Osher Life Long Learning Institute with two courses, Talking about Classical Music and Talking about Dance, centered around performances on Cal Performances' 2008-09 season. Together with acclaimed scholars and artists, Robert Cole, director of Cal Performances, will host the following classes offered in conjunction with six concerts of music and six dance performances. Visit www.olli.berkeley.edu or call 510.642.9934 for more information and registration.

Flyer [pdf]