Borromeo String Quartet And Nicholas Cords Celebrate Beethoven

Explore musical relationships in Beethoven’s late works with the Borromeo String Quartet, featuring his op. 130 string quartet and the legendary Grosse Fuge, labelled by Stravinsky as “an absolutely contemporary piece of music that will be contemporary forever.” Our own Nicholas Cords joins the quartet for a performance of Beethoven’s 8th symphony in transcription.
 

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As an extra feature of this concert, listen as Nicholas Kitchen gives an in-depth talk about Grosse Fuge — offering further details about the manuscript expressive marks in general and specifically how these marks unfold in relation to the expressive narrative of the six movements of the string quartet Op. 130. The talk features extensive display of pages from the manuscript and was filmed in the President's Library at NEC, in collaboration with the Library of Congress. View the talk