Bard Conservatory of Music Events
Conservatory faculty member Melissa Reardon, viola, with Nicholas Kitchen, violin, Kristopher Tong, violin , and Yeesun Kim, cello
Bard College Conservatory of Music Presents
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Borromeo String Quartet performs a Cycle of Bartók Quartets
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
All six Bartók String Quartets featured in a performance with Conservatory viola faculty and member of the Borromeo Quartet, Melissa Reardon.
Each visionary performance of the award-winning Borromeo String Quartet strengthens and deepens its reputation as one of the most important ensembles of our time. Admired and sought after for both its fresh interpretations of the classical music canon and its championing of works by 20th and 21st century composers, the ensemble has been hailed for its “edge-of-the- seat performances,” by the Boston Globe, which called it “simply the best.”The BSQ’s presentation of the cycle of Bartók String Quartets gives audiences a once-in-a-lifetime chance to hear a set of rediscovered alternate movements that Béla Bartók drafted for his six quartets. Describing a Bartók concert at the Curtis Institute, the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that the quartet “performed at a high standard that brought you so deeply into the music's inner workings that you wondered if your brain could take it all in ... The music's mystery, violence, and sorrow become absolutely inescapable.”
Free and open to the public.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
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Borromeo String Quartet performs a Cycle of Bartók Quartets
All six Bartók String Quartets featured in a performance with Conservatory viola faculty and member of the Borromeo Quartet, Melissa Reardon.
Each visionary performance of the award-winning Borromeo String Quartet strengthens and deepens its reputation as one of the most important ensembles of our time. Admired and sought after for both its fresh interpretations of the classical music canon and its championing of works by 20th and 21st century composers, the ensemble has been hailed for its “edge-of-the- seat performances,” by the Boston Globe, which called it “simply the best.”The BSQ’s presentation of the cycle of Bartók String Quartets gives audiences a once-in-a-lifetime chance to hear a set of rediscovered alternate movements that Béla Bartók drafted for his six quartets. Describing a Bartók concert at the Curtis Institute, the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that the quartet “performed at a high standard that brought you so deeply into the music's inner workings that you wondered if your brain could take it all in ... The music's mystery, violence, and sorrow become absolutely inescapable.”
Free and open to the public.