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The Borromeo Quartet (Christian Steiner)
What is it about the string quartet as a form that so captivates the world's greatest composers? We'll find out on this week's Saint Paul Sunday when the celebrated young Borromeo String Quartet surveys its repertoire with all the warmth, virtuosity, and passion it inspires.
Beginning with music of Franz Joseph Haydn—the father of the string quartet—the Borromeo gives us the haunting Andante Moderato from Brahms's Second Quartet, and concludes with Janácek's "Intimate Letters," music that chronicles the 70-year old composer's intense devotion to a much younger woman.
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 64, No. 6
IV. Finale: Presto
Johannes Brahms: String Quartet in a minor, Op. 51, No. 2
Andante Moderato
Leos Janacek: String: Quartet No. 2, Intimate Letters
Comments [3]
Rachel and Lenore,
Once a month, WQXR has a show called Mad About Music which takes over the Saint Paul Sunday timeslot. If you'd like to hear this week's Saint Paul Sunday episode, you can listen to it streaming on demand here: http://saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org/programs/572/
We can't find St. Paul Sunday (8/3/10). Is it on at all?
When is St Paul Sunday coming back? And please, not when normal people are sleeping.
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