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...Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) performed Beethoven??s Third (“Eroica”) and Fourth Symphonies under James Levine on February 19 with an ironically self-possessed mood of adolescent naïveté. Cleverly and convincingly, the BSO managed to make the Beethoven symphonies come alive with a sense of artistic honesty and real intensity of spirit...
Fischer hinted, however, that the audience will likely hear compositions by Beethoven??as suggested by the show’s tagline, “Beethoven in Bars”—as well as brand new pieces. “We have some newly commissioned works from young composers... we just received them this past month. If we’re lucky, we’ll try to play some of that,” she says...
Coinciding with their residency at Harvard, the quartet is also embarking upon an ambitious mission to play all 16 of Beethoven??s string quartets in concert—some portion of which the Queen’s Head audience is likely to hear Thursday...
...We’re hardly original in this project. Playing all Beethoven??s string quartets is akin to running a marathon or climbing Mount Everest. It’s one of the big goals a string quartet can aspire to,” Sirota says...
Despite their ubiquity, Beethoven??s quartets still hold a special appeal for the group. “He put his most interesting and sometimes his most intimate work into his quartets,” Sirota says. “Beethoven went through such dramatic artistic and aesthetic changes over the course of his life that you can put together programs that are interesting, and have a great variety of music, just made up of his quartets...