Chiaroscuro Quartet

Named after the painting technique that plays with extremes of light and shadow, the Chiaroscuro Quartet has spent two decades illuminating music of the Classical and early Romantic periods with raw immediacy and tonal daring. Performing on gut strings and with historical bows, they produce “a sound of ravishing sonic and intonational purity” (The Strad).This PCMS debut program from one of Europe’s finest quartets ranges from the carefree sophistication of Haydn’s Joke Quartet to the haunting, epic majesty of Beethoven’s Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132.