Review: The Great Emerson String Quartet Takes Its Final Bow
A pillar of chamber music for nearly a half-century, the Emerson players bid farewell with Beethoven’s Opus 130 and Schubert’s String Quintet.
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A pillar of chamber music for nearly a half-century, the Emerson players bid farewell with Beethoven’s Opus 130 and Schubert’s String Quintet.
The group, famed for its rich vitality, easy power and a vast repertory that it recorded prolifically and toured tirelessly, is saying farewell.
On their farewell tour, two members of the string group ponder companionship and the merits (or not) of their namesake, Ralph Waldo, Fergus McIntosh writes.
Widely considered one of the defining string quartets of their time, the Emerson String Quartet, which will disband in October, performed a final University concert to a sold-out crowd in the Morse Recital Hall.
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