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Emerson String Quartet + Escher String Quartet

Name: Emerson String Quartet + Escher String Quartet
Start: 2023-02-04T20:00:00
Location: Lafayette College

Williams Center for the Arts

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Few ensembles have achieved the stature of the Emerson String Quartet, one of the most celebrated of all time. “For precision and unanimity it is second to none…so perfectly in tune that it [is] almost uncanny,” attests London’s Financial Times. Along with the insightful musicians of the Escher String Quartet, this estimable force takes command of an infrequently performed repertoire, with Mendelssohn’s genre-defining Octet for Strings as its cen...

Program

Felix Mendelssohn - String Octet

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Richard Strauss - Capriccio

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Anton Bruckner - String Quintet in F major

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Dmitri Shostakovich - String Octet

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Williams Center for the Arts

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