Overview
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in C-Major, Op. 76, No. 3 (“Emperor”)
Korngold: String Quartet #3 in D Major, Op. 34
Beethoven: String Quartet in C-Major, Op. 59, No. 3
Established in 1989, the St. Lawrence String Quartet has developed an undisputed reputation as a truly world class chamber ensemble. The quartet performs more than 120 concerts annually worldwide and calls Stanford University home, where the group is Ensemble in Residence. St. Lawrence String Quartet continues to build its reputation for imaginative and spontaneous music making, through an energetic commitment to the great, established quartet literature as well as championing new works by such composers as John Adams,Osvaldo Golijov, Eziquiel Viñao, and Jonathan Berger. Alex Ross in The New Yorker, said, “the St. Lawrence are remarkable not simply for the quality of their music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy they take in the act of connection.”
Korngold: String Quartet #3 in D Major, Op. 34
Beethoven: String Quartet in C-Major, Op. 59, No. 3
Established in 1989, the St. Lawrence String Quartet has developed an undisputed reputation as a truly world class chamber ensemble. The quartet performs more than 120 concerts annually worldwide and calls Stanford University home, where the group is Ensemble in Residence. St. Lawrence String Quartet continues to build its reputation for imaginative and spontaneous music making, through an energetic commitment to the great, established quartet literature as well as championing new works by such composers as John Adams,Osvaldo Golijov, Eziquiel Viñao, and Jonathan Berger. Alex Ross in The New Yorker, said, “the St. Lawrence are remarkable not simply for the quality of their music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy they take in the act of connection.”