ACFNY SUPPORTED | CONCERT | HAGEN QUARTET | BEETHOVEN’S COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS
Over the past 30 years, the Austrian Hagen Quartet has forged a reputation as one of the world’s most brilliant quartets. Yet, remarkably, they have never done the complete cycle of all 16 Beethoven string quartets—even Franz Schubert said, “after this, what is left for us to write?” This exclusive event is a rare treat and marks the Quartet’s only New York appearance this season. The Hagen Quartet series is partially supported by an endowment gift from Joan L. and Dr. Julius H. Jacobson, II and by the Austrian Cultural Forum.
DATES
THU, NOV 7, 7:30 PM
F major, Op. 18, No. 1
F major, Op. 135
F major, Op. 59, No. 1
SAT, NOV 9, 8 PM
F minor, Op. 95, “Serioso”
E-flat major, Op. 74, “Harp”
B-flat major, Op. 18, No. 6
SUN, NOV 10, 3 PM
A minor, Op. 132
E minor, Op. 59, No. 2
THU, NOV 14, 7:30 PM
D major, Op. 18, No. 3
A major, Op. 18, No. 5
E-flat major, Op. 127
SAT, NOV 16, 8 PM
G major, Op. 18, No. 2
C minor, Op. 18, No. 4
C-sharp minor, Op. 131
SUN, NOV 17, 3 PM
C major, Op. 59, No. 3
B-flat major, Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Hagen Quartet
Lukas Hagen, violin
Rainer Schmidt, violin
Veronika Hagen, viola
Clemens Hagen, cello
The Hagen Quartet, recognized as “undoubtedly the world’s most famous quartet,” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) received the prestigious ECHO Klassik award for Ensemble of the Year 2011. In 2012, they were named Honorary Member of Vienna’s Konzerthaus. The unprecedented three-decade career of the Hagen Quartet began in 1981. Its early years, marked by a series of prizes in chamber music competitions and an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon that was to produce around forty-five CDs over the following twenty years, enabled the group to work its way through the virtually unlimited quartet repertoire from which the distinctive profile of the Hagens has emerged.
Collaborations with artistic personalities such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt and György Kurtág are as important to the Hagen Quartet as its concert appearances with performers including Maurizio Pollini, Mitsuko Uchida, Sabine Meyer, Krystian Zimerman, Heinrich Schiff and Jörg Widmann.
The group’s concert repertoire and discography feature attractive and intelligently arranged programs embracing the entire history of the string quartet, from its pre-Haydn beginnings right through to Kurtág. The Hagen Quartet also works closely with composers of its own generation, whether by reviving existing works or by commissioning and premiering new pieces.
For many young string quartets, the Hagen Quartet is a model in terms of sound quality, stylistic plurality, ensemble playing and serious commitment to the works and composers of its chosen genre. As teachers and mentors at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Hochschule in Basel, as well as in international masterclasses, the quartet’s members pass on their wealth of experience to their younger colleagues.
VENUE
92Y Kaufmann Concert Hall
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128
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