The Fine Arts Quartet 80th Anniversary Series – Complete Mozart String Quintets & Beethoven Early Quartets

The quartet will perform an ambitious FREE series in May of twelve masterworks over six concerts, including on May 21: Beethoven  Beethoven String Quartet No. 2 in G Major — The most charming and witty of the set, full of courtly elegance and Haydnesque humor, with a slow movement that pulls off a delightful trick: a playful scherzo suddenly bursts through the middle of a tender operatic aria. AND Mozart String Quintet in D Major, K. 593 (1790) — The most intellectually rigorous of the six, leaner and more concentrated than its predecessors. Listen for the stately opening that keeps returning like a philosophical refrain, and a slow movement that ends with what one reviewer called “a sad smile.”

Program
Guest Violist, Hartmut Rohde
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – String Quintet in D Major, KV 593

Celebrating 80 Years – Full Festival Lineup

Pre-talks begin one hour prior to each program (except May 19)

Sunday, May 17 at 3:00 PM – Guest Violist, Hartmut Rohde
UWM Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – String Quartet in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – String Quintet in C Major, KV 515

Tuesday, May 19 at 7:30 PM – Guest Violist, Hartmut Rohde
Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, 914 E. Knapp St.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – String Quintet in B-Flat Major, KV 174

Thursday, May 21 at 7:30 PM – Guest Violist, Hartmut Rohde
UWM Recital Hall (near Arts Center Lecture Hall), 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – String Quintet in D Major, KV 593

Tuesday, May 26 at 7:30 PM – Guest Violist, Razvan Popovici 
UWM Recital Hall (near Arts Center Lecture Hall), 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – String Quintet in E-Flat Major, KV 614

Thursday, May 28 at 7:30 PM – Guest Violist, Razvan Popovici 
UWM Recital Hall (near Arts Center Lecture Hall), 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – String Quintet in C Minor, KV 406

Sunday, May 31 at 3:00 PM – Guest Violist, Razvan Popovici
UWM Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – String Quintet in G Minor, KV 516