Revered Jerusalem String Quartet brings us Beethoven Op. 130 (with the Grosse Fuge), Haydn “Sunrise” Quartet, Op. 76, No. 4, and a new work by Shulamit Ran in their anticipated return to PSC

Jerusalem String Quartet

Public High School

Praised for their “passion, precision, [and] warmth,” the Jerusalem Quartet’s breadth of repertoire and depth of expression have firmly established them in the string quartet tradition. Over 30 years, the ensemble has found its core in a warm, full, human sound and egalitarian balance of voices. This program includes Janáček's Kreutzer Sonata string quartet, inspired by a Tolstoy novella; a new work composed for the Jerusalem Quartet by Shulamit Ran; and Ravel's sole String Quartet with its memorable pizzicato second movement.

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Jerusalem Quartet

Stanford University

The renowned Jerusalem Quartet opens our season with a masterful program spanning three centuries of string quartet repertoire. The concert features Haydn’s Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 76, No. 4, Shostakovich’s deeply expressive Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 108, and Beethoven’s monumental Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130, culminating in the powerful Grosse Fuge, Op. 133.

University of Louisville

Experience the sublime artistry of the Jerusalem Quartet in an evening of intimate and powerful chamber music. Celebrated worldwide for their exceptional skill and deep musical connection, the quartet offers a captivating blend of classical mastery and fresh interpretations that continue to thrill audiences. The Jerusalem Quartet weaves together classical repertoire with the kind of transparency and artistry that only this ensemble can deliver. Their performances reveal not just the technical brilliance of each player, but a deep sense of connection and collaborative spirit, drawing the audience into an intimate musical dialogue.

Irvine Barclay Theatre

Experience the sublime artistry of the Jerusalem Quartet in an evening of intimate and powerful chamber music. Celebrated worldwide for their exceptional skill and deep musical connection, the quartet offers a captivating blend of classical mastery and fresh interpretations that continue to thrill audiences.

Perhaps more than any other composer since Beethoven, Dmitri Shostakovich employed the string quartet as a vehicle for his deepest and most personal ruminations on the human condition. Composed over a span of 36 years, his 15 string quartets are deeply personal, and capture both his inner world and his evolution as a composer.

St. Anthony Park United Church of Christ

Perhaps more than any other composer since Beethoven, Dimitri Shostakovich employed the string quartet as a vehicle for his deepest and most personal ruminations on the human condition. Composed over a span of 36 years, his 15 string quartets are deeply personal, and capture both his inner world and his evolution as a composer.

Saint Anthony Park United Church of Christ

Albuquerque Academy

Jerusalem Quartet has impressed critics and moved audiences with striking interpretations of time-tested quartet repertoire and beyond.

Highlighting their range, the Quartet’s program reflects three centuries of quartet repertoire, spanning the early Classical through twelve-tone modern styles. The program also encompasses countless moods: the clarity of Haydn’s monothematic movements, the teeming darkness and vigor of Shostakovich, and one of Dvořák’s loveliest slow movements.

University of Utah

One of CMH’s returning favorites this season is the Jerusalem Quartet, offering Mozart’s most unusual 1785 String Quartet in C Major, known as “Dissonance”. Despite its famously discordant introduction, this piece in particular inspired Haydn to name Mozart “the greatest composer known to me.” This is a rare chance to hear what many consider Mozart’s most harmonically complex work.

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

Tucson Convention Center

With passion, precision, warmth, and a gorgeous blend, the excellent Jerusalem Quartet returns for the first time in five years to Rackham Auditorium, performing Paul Ben-Haim’s rhapsodic quartet alongside a quartet by Haydn. Founded in 1993, the quartet’s wide repertoire and stunning depth of expression carries on the string quartet tradition with its warm, full, human sound.

Jerusalem Quartet Inon Barnatan, piano

University of Michigan

CMP will be collecting non-perishable food donations for the JFCS Squirrel Hill Food Pantry. Each ticket holder that brings a donation will receive an Access Pass, good for one free CMP concert ticket to any future performance.

PPU Pittsburgh Playhouse

The Sunday Times praised the Jerusalem Quartet’s ‘immaculate, spirited playing’ in its recording of Mozart’s ‘Hunt’ Quartet, while The Times wrote of the ensemble’s ‘gold blend’ of ‘passion, precision, warmth’. It sets Mozart alongside the last of Bartók’s six quartets, completed shortly before its composer found refuge from war-torn Europe in the United States, before turning to Ravel’s ravishingly beautiful String Quartet in F.

Wigmore Hall

Besides being one of the finest baritones of his generation, a natural successor to his great teacher, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Benjamin Appl is among the most thoughtful of programme builders. He opens his recital with the Jerusalem Quartet with Robert Schumann’s melodramatic Belsatzar, a spine-tingling ballad recalling Belshazzar’s feast from the Book of Daniel, and ventures into the world, past and present, and beyond into the infinite cosmos of dreams.

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