MODIGLIANI STRING QUARTET

AMAURY COEYTAUX, VIOLIN 
LOÏC RIO, VIOLIN
LAURENT MARFAING, VIOLA
FRANÇOIS KIEFFER, CELLO  

“ The Modigliani quartet clearly belongs to the world’s greatest “ — Le Monde (Paris)

Founded in 2003, the Paris-based Modigliani Quartet occupies the upper echelon of string quartets. In addition to their annual tours in the United States and in Asia, the quartet’s European tours have inspired acclaim in the major concert halls of London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and Saint Petersburg.

The elite French ensemble will perform a wide-ranging program that will include Joaquín’s Turina’s lushly impressionistic La oración de torero (The Bullfighter’s Prayer), Brahms’s tenderhearted Quartet in B-flat, Op. 67, and Beethoven’s sublime Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2. His student, Carl Czerny, wrote that the second movement “occurred to Beethoven while he was contemplating the starry sky and thinking of the music of the spheres.”

PROGRAM

Joaquín’s Turina: La oración de torero (The Bullfighter’s Prayer)

Johannes Brahms: String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 67  

Intermission

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2