Weekend Concert Series
Brooklyn Rider
Sunday, February 9, 2025
1:30 pm
CALDERWOOD HALL
Sunday, February 9, 2025
1:30 pm
CALDERWOOD HALL
This path-breaking string quartet makes its Gardner Museum debut. They include one of Purcell’s amazing late set of viol fantasias in which Purcell weaves harmonic magic around a C held throughout the piece by one of the players. French-American Betsy Jolas has a love of early music (her seventh string quartet is an homage to Purcell’s “one note” fantasia). This will be a rare and happy chance to hear her third quartet, a set of 11 short bravura movements, each exploring a different facet of string playing. Mozart’s “Dissonance” is one of the set of six quartets he dedicated to Haydn after the latter expressed enthusiasm for them—as well he might have!
Photo Credit: Marco Giannavola
Henry Purcell: Fantasia upon One Note, Z.745 (about 1680)
W. A. Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K. 465 “Dissonance” (1785)
Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1 (1865–1873)
Arvo Pärt: Solfeggio (1963)
Betsy Jolas: String Quartet No. 3 “9 Etudes” (1973)
Program subject to change.
Johnny Gandelsman, violin
Colin Jacobsen, violin
Nicholas Cords, viola
Michael Nicolas, cello
Performance Level and First Balcony:
Members $65, Adults $85, Seniors $75, Students & Children ages 7–17 $20
Second Balcony:
Members $50, Adults $65, Seniors $55, Students & Children 7-17 $20
Third Balcony:
Members $40, Adults $50, Seniors $45, Students & Children ages 7–17 $20
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Music at the Gardner is supported by Nora McNeely Hurley / Manitou Fund. Hemenway & Barnes LLP is the lead corporate sponsor of the Weekend Concert Series. The Museum thanks its generous concert donors: The Coogan Concert in memory of Peter Weston Coogan; Fitzpatrick Family Concert; James Lawrence Memorial Concert; Alford P. Rudnick Memorial Concert; David Scudder in memory of his wife, Marie Louise Scudder; Wendy Shattuck Young Artist Concert; and Willona Sinclair Memorial Concert. The piano is dedicated as the Alex d’Arbeloff Steinway. The harpsichord was generously donated by Dr. Robert Barstow in memory of Marion Huse, and its care is endowed in memory of Dr. Barstow by The Barstow Fund. Music at the Gardner is also supported in part by New Music USA's Organization Fund, Nicie and Jay Panetta, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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