Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Calidore String Quartet

The Calidore String Quartet—praised by the Los Angeles Times for their “astonishingly life-affirming music-making” and by The New York Times for their “irrepressible dramatic instinct”—makes their Festival debut playing two riveting works. Beethoven’s early-period String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1, thrills with its revelations of where the composer would take the string-quartet form in the ensuing decades, and its gorgeous second movement is (very convincingly) said to have been inspired by the tragic tomb scene in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Britten’s String Quartet in C Major, Op. 36, is a wonderfully original, modern-era tribute to the influential English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, as Britten composed the work in 1945 to commemorate the death of the composer 250 years earlier.
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1
BRITTEN String Quartet in C Major, Op. 36
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