Schubert’s gifts as master of both song and instrumental music enriches this string quartet, with reinterpretations of some of his own songs — including Gretchen am Spinnrade and Schöne Welt, wo bist du — to form a new, beautiful whole.
SCHUBERT (1797 –1828)
String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D.804, Rosamunde (1824)
1. Allegro ma non troppo
2. Andante
3. Menuetto allegretto — Trio
4. Allegro moderato
Philharmonic musicians perform chamber works by six contemporary composers who chose to spend time living and working in America. Taken together, these works weave together influences from all over the world to form a uniquely American tapestry of sound.
CHEN Yi (b. 1953)
At the Kansas Cit...
Five contemporary vocal works that explore ideas of timeliness and timelessness. There’s Lizée’s pastiche of karaoke tapes and Crumb’s iconoclastic response to Apollo 11. La Barbara’s litany on American history and Prestini’s intimate portrait of the author of Silent Spring. Ber...
