PROGRAM
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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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