Special Beethoven Quartet Weekend
Saturday, April 16, & Sunday, April 17, 2011
Pacifica String Quartet
Simin Ganatra & Sibbi Bernhardsson, violins
Masumi Per Rostad, viola; Brandon Vamos, cello.
Beethoven Quartet Op. 18, No. 6, “La Malinconia”, Allegro con brio. Recorded at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 2008.Winner of 2009 Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance
This will be the third and concluding part of the Pacifica’s performance of the entire Beethoven String Quartet cycle. Few chamber music ensembles have been so well prepared to undertake this monumental task. Since their formation in 1994, the Pacifica has garnered almost every available musical honor, including the Avery Fisher Career Grant, winner of the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition, Musical America’s 2009 “Ensemble of the Year” award and special recognition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which invited the Pacifica to perform Beethoven and Shostakovich quartet cycles through 2012. Capping all their honors was the 2009 Grammy for the quartet about which the Los Angeles Times has written, “There's no point in predicting future greatness for the young Pacifica Quartet. That future is already here.”
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