Emerson String Quartet

"The Emerson...represented an extraordinary fusion of experience and authority with audacity and freshness." -- Boston Globe

The Emerson String Quartet returns with a program of stunning complexity and beauty. To convey the worlds of sound encompassed by Shostakovich's harrowing String Quartet No. 3, Beethoven's defining Opus 131, and the delicacy of Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 1 requires a rare blend of exceptional individual virtuosity with perfectly matched ensemble playing--signature traits of the Emerson. Eugene Drucker, violin; Philip Setzer, violin; Lawrence Dutton, viola; David Finckel, cello.

PROGRAM Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat Major, op. 12; Dmitry Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, op. 73; Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, op. 131