Bracing Bartók and Beethoven from the Juilliard String Quartet at Ravinia

A battle has been raging among the audiences of San Francisco concerts, and the conflict came to a head Sunday night at the Nourse Theatre. There were jeers and hisses and contempt lobbed into the air. But it was not the Juilliard String Quartet they were angry with. It was each other. The Juilliard was busy breathing life into one of Beethoven’s lesser works, his String Quartet No. 2.

Mit einem herausfordernden Programm aus Klassik und Moderne erspielte sich das Juilliard String Quartet im Stadttheater Fürth tiefen Eindruck.

In his first New York appearance since the termination of his contract as BSO Music Director, Nelsons courts public sympathy and makes some thrilling music.

The sparkle of Max Bruch's Fecond Violin Concerto and the drama of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony overcome the gloom of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s dark forebodings. 

Beethoven's Christus am Ölberge is paired with Haydn's Die sieben letzten Worte, a journey from agony to transcendence in which the agony proves the more honest companion.