Program Books/Takács Quartet 2526/Takács Quartet 2526 Program

PROGRAM

Joseph HAYDN (1732–1809)

String Quartet in G minor, Op. 74, No. 3, Rider (1793)

Allegro

Largo assai

Menuetto: Allegretto

Finale: Allegro con brio

Clarice ASSAD (b. 1978) NEXUS (Bay Area Premiere, 2025)

MOVEMENT ONE: (Dis)Connect

Opening Sequence – Individual Emergence – Emotional Breakthrough – Connection Forms – Disconnection – Ritual – Orbital Hypnosis

MOVEMENT TWO: Connection

Controlled Unity – Intensification – Dissolution

MOVEMENT THREE: Synchronization

Handoff Ritual – Mechanical Control – Virtuosic – Liberation – Resolution

NEXUS co-commissioners: Cal Performances, Carnegie Hall, The Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Maryland, University Musical Society, Middlebury College, BroadStage, Portland Friends of Chamber Music, Chamber Music Napa Valley. NEXUS lead commissioner: Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, for Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

INTERMISSION

Claude DEBUSSY (1862–1918) String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 (1893)

Animé et très décidé

Assez vif et bien rythmé

Andantino, doucement expressif

Très modéré

The Takács Quartet appears by arrangement with Seldy Cramer Artists,
and records for Hyperion and Decca/London Records.
The Takács Quartet is Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Colorado in Boulder;
the members are Associate Artists at Wigmore Hall, London.
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