Posts Tagged ‘Escher String Quartet’
A Spiritual Journey With Messiaen As Guide
Among the few pivotal works of chamber music from the first half of the last century, nothing touches Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” for its combination of radical technique and sumptuous beauty. Written under grim conditions—in 1941 the composer was a prisoner-of-war in a German stalag near Dresden—it is nevertheless an audacious…
Read MoreMusic in Avant-Garde Vienna a Century Ago
Friday’s La Jolla SummerFest program featured chamber music from the exciting but contradictory musical landscape of Vienna during the first half of the 20th century–Korngold, Webern and Zemlinsky . . .
Read MoreBrilliant Janáček and Mozart open La Jolla SummerFest
La Jolla SummerFest 2015 opened Friday (August 7) with a scintillating performance of Janáček by the Escher String Quartet and a splendid Mozart Piano Quartet that took the breath away . . .
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