After over a decade of performances and residencies in the world’s most esteemed venues and festivals, the release of numerous critically acclaimed recordings and lauded with significant awards, the Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast repertory; from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated contemporary voices like Grygory Kurtag, Jörg Widmann and Caroline Shaw.
MONTERO "Canaima" Piano Quintet
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5
Intermission
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57
MONTERO "Canaima" Piano Quintet
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5
Intermission
DVOŘÁK Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18
“The works played here reflect the intense experimentalism of Beethoven’s middle years – the leading Viennese critic of the day declared the ‘Razumovskys’ ‘not generally comprehensible’ – and the Calidore Quartet are well up to all the challenges…this album set is highly collectible.”