Monday, April 20

Jupiter String Quartet
Concert Hall
7:30 PM

Adelphi Ensemble in Residence

ARTISTS
Nelson Lee, violin
Meg Freivogel, violin
Liz Freivogel, viola
Daniel McDonough, cello

PROGRAM
Felix Mendelssohn, Quartet in A minor, Op. 13
Thomas Adès, Arcadiana
Ludwig van Beethoven, Quartet in A minor, Op. 132

In their final appearance of the season, the Jupiters (as they are known) will perform strongly related works of emotional depth and spiritual vision. Mendelssohn’s Quartet in A minor was written partly as a response to the death of Beethoven, whose late quartets he revered as masterpieces while some were dismissing them as the ravings of a deaf old man. Beethoven struggled with his health while writing his Opus 132 quartet, also in A minor. Although not specifically programmatic, the quartet expresses in musical terms the composer’s state of mind in his final years: the struggle against destiny and the triumph of spirit over physical hardship. Placed between these two works is Arcadiana by the gifted contemporary British pianist, conductor and composer Thomas Adès. Arcadiana is a set of seven miniatures, each of which, as the composer notes, “evokes an image associated with ideas of the idyll, vanishing, vanished or imaginary.”

Regular ticket prices apply.