Emerson String Quartet with Jeffrey Kahane, piano

"Kahane's playing was incisive yet sensitive, with pearly, polished tones..."

- San Diego Union-Tribune

The Grammy Award-winning Emerson String Quartet returns to Stanford for a sumptuous evening of chamber music delivered with elegance and panache. Renowned pianist and conductor of the Santa Rosa Symphony Jeffrey Kahane joins the gifted ensemble for their only West Coast performance of the stirring Brahms Quintet in F Minor. Eugene Drucker, violin; Philip Setzer, violin; Lawrence Dutton, viola; David Finckel, cello.

PROGRAM

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet in G Major, K. 387; Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, op. 36; Johannes Brahms: Quintet in F Minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, op. 34