Work: String Quartet no. 2 in G major, Op.18 no.2

At Suntory Hall's annual chamber music festival, the Schumann Quartett embarks on a marathon of performing all of Beethoven’s string quartets over six concerts.

Beethoven meets Ottoman composer Dede Efendi in a contemporary take on the Pastoral Symphony in Istanbul. 

No perceivable whiff of ennui from the Hagen Quartet, whose four members truly play like a single organism.