Danish String Quartet
| SCHUBERT | String Quartet in A minor, D. 804, Rosamunde Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703 |
| ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR | Rituals (Bay Area Premiere, Cal Performances Co-commission) |
| SCHUBERT | “Gretchen am Spinnrade” (arranged for string quartet by DSQ) |
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| TRADITIONAL | Kisti du Kom (arranged by Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen) |
The sensational Danish String Quartet returns to perform the third concert in its ongoing Doppelgänger Project, pairing Schubert’s Rosamunde Quartet with a newly commissioned work by Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Schubert’s serene and solemn quartet bears the weight of the composer’s declining health and heavy heart during the period of its composition—when he died a few years after its premiere, Rosamunde was his only quartet to have been performed publicly in its entirety; it was also his only chamber work published during his lifetime. Thorvaldsdottir is widely admired as one of the most original voices of her generation, praised for creating vast, visceral, and ravishing musical landscapes that conjure at once a sense of “immensity and intimacy” (Gramophone).
Major support provided by The Bernard Osher Foundation.