Signature Series: Echoes

Echoes

Greenville – Fri, Feb 13 @ 7:30 PM
A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall on the campus of East Carolina University & Online
Raleigh – Sun, Feb 15 @ 3:00 PM
Hayes Barton United Methodist Church & Online

The Cooperstown Quartet joins forces with pianist Robert McDonald in a concert featuring musical echoes. In his String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, Franz Schubert repeatedly harkened back to his musical past, connecting this late work with quotations from several earlier compositions. The resulting quartet is hauntingly beautiful and filled to the brim with Schubert’s signature lyricism. The introspective Schubert is juxtaposed with the sheer ardor of César Franck’s Piano Quintet in F Minor, a work that features echoes not of other works but rather of itself. The beloved quintet, a startlingly passionate and intense work, is unified across its three movements by a theme, a then-novel innovation of which Franck was fond.

PROGRAM:
Franz Schubert — String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, D. 804 “Rosamunde”
brief pause
César Franck — Piano Quintet in F Minor

MUSICIANS:
Robert McDonald, piano
Cooperstown Quartet
Ara Gregorian & Hye-Jin Kim, violins
Maria Lambros, viola
Michael Kannen, cello