Bartok & Beethoven

The Miami String Quartet teams up with legendary clarinetist David Shifrin for Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet— one of the composer’s final works and one that’s often referred to as his greatest piece of chamber music—and violinist Jennifer Frautschi and pianist Shai Wosner play Bartók’s Second Violin and Piano Sonata, an intoxicating and wholly individual work that helped build the composer’s international reputation. Frautschi and the Miami’s Scott Lee and Keith Robinson open the program with Beethoven’s youthful but seminal (and highly demanding) String Trio in D Major. 

BEETHOVEN String Trio in D Major, Op. 9, No. 2  

BARTÓK Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano, Sz. 76  

BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 

Shai Wosner, piano; Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Miami String Quartet (Benny Kim, Cathy Meng Robinson, violin; Scott Lee, viola; Keith Robinson, cello); David Shifrin, clarinet 

Approximate length: 1 hour and 50 minutes