Borromeo String Quartet: The Bartók Cycle

NEC: Jordan Hall | Directions

290 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA
United States

The Borromeo String Quartet, NEC’s Quartet-in-Residence, plays the six quartets of Béla Bartók.

Considered "simply the best there is" by The Boston Globe, the Borromeo String Quartet is one of the most sought-after string quartets in the world, each season performing more than one hundred concerts of classical and contemporary literature across three continents. Audiences and critics alike have championed the Borromeo Quartet's revealing explorations of the complete quartet cycles of Beethoven, Brahms, and Bartók, and its affinity for making challenging repertoire approachable.

Please note the 7:00 start time for this concert.

This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community here: https://necmusic.edu/live

Artists

  1. String Quartet No. 1, op. 7, Sz. 40 (1909)

    Lento
    Allegretto
    Allegro vivace

  2. String Quartet No. 2, op. 17, Sz. 67 (1917)

    Moderato
    Allegro molto capriccioso
    Lento

  3. INTERMISSION

  4. String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85 (1927)

    Prima parte
    Seconda parte
    Ricapitulazione della prima parte
    Coda

  5. String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91 (1928)

    Allegro
    Prestissimo, con sordino
    Non troppo lento
    Allegretto pizzicato
    Allegro molto

  6. INTERMISSION

  7. String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102 (1934)

    Allegro                 
    Allegro molto
    Scherzo: Alla bulgarese
    Andante
    Finale: Allegro vivace

  8. String Quartet No. 6, Sz. 114 (1939)

    Mesto: Vivace
    Mesto: Marcia
    Mesto: Burletta
    Mesto

    Ensembles
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