The Angel's Share: The Calidore String Quartet – Beethoven Op. 130 with Große Fuge
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- Jeffrey Myers, violin
- Ryan Meehan, violin
- Jeremy Berry, viola
- Estelle Choi, cello
Ludwig van Beethoven — Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
Note: All performances of this program are currently sold out.
Composed in the final years before his death, Beethoven's String Quartet Opus 130 remains to this day one of the most mysterious and revelatory works ever set to score. Beethoven had been deaf for decades when he wrote it, and these six movements conjure a sound world unlike anything heard before or since, speaking to the limitless reaches of human emotion, from joy to despair, the sacred to the profane, and everything in between. The beating heart of the piece is the slow movement, which caused Beethoven himself to declare "that he had composed this Cavatina truly in the tears of melancholy." We’ll finish the work as Beethoven originally intended, with his Grosse Fugue finale that exists at the edges of madness and incomprehensibility, hurtling between chaos and order in one of music’s most extraordinary expressions.
For these singular performances, we are lucky enough to be graced by the glory of the Calidore Quartet – four of today's leading musicians who "speak, breathe, think and feel as one” (Washington Post), and who stand among the world's greatest interpreters of Beethoven's music.
This program will be performed each night, September 20-22. Each performance includes an hourlong spirits tasting, followed by a twilight walk through the cemetery to the Catacombs. There are two performances each evening:
Performance #1: 6pm-8:30pm
Reception – 6pm-7pm
Walk/Trolley to the Catacombs – 7pm-7:30pm
Show – 7:30pm-8:30pm
Performance #2: 7:30pm-10pm
Reception – 7:30pm-8:30pm
Walk/Trolley to the Catacombs – 8:30pm-9pm
Show – 9pm-10pm