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 28: Beethoven String Quartet No. 3 in D Major — The gentlest and most lyrical of the six quartets transforms completely in its finale, a blazing Presto that hijacks the entire work and then, at the last possible moment, dissolves into a teasing whisper rather than the expected triumphant close. AND Mozart String Quintet in C Minor, K. 406 (1787) — The odd one out: a transcription of a wind serenade, startlingly dark for the genre. The highlight is a minuet built on a mirror canon that Erik Smith described as “two swans reflected in still water.”

Program
Guest Violist, Razvan Popovici 
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

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