Escher String Quartet

The popular Escher String Quartet, praised by The New York Times for their “passionate performances” and “gorgeous tonal sheen,” plays Dutilleux’s only string quartet—the exhilarating Ainsi la Nuit, whose inspiration includes another work on this program: Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4. In between those pieces, the Escher plays Haydn’s wonderfully evocative Bird Quartet.

DUTILLEUX Ainsi la nuit (Thus the Night) for String Quartet

HAYDN Quartet in C Major for Strings, Op. 33, No. 3, The Bird

BARTÓK String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91

Escher String Quartet (Adam Barnett-Hart, Brendan Speltz, violin; Pierre Lapointe, viola; Brook Speltz, cello)

Approximate length: 1 hour

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