Brentano String Quartet with Dawn Upshaw, soprano

Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. "Passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding," raves the London Independent; the New York Times extols its"luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism." Dawn Upshaw Soprano Joining a rare natural warmth with a fierce commitment to the transforming communicative power of music, Dawn Upshaw has achieved worldwide celebrity as a singer of opera and concert repertoire ranging from the sacred works of Bach to the freshest sounds of today. Program: Mendelssohn: from Four Pieces for String Quartet, Op.81 Tema con variazioni in E Major Op.81, No.1 Scherzo in A Minor, Op.81, No.2 Schumann: Quartet in A Major, Op.41, No.3 Respighi: Il Tramonto Schoenberg: String Quartet No.2