Don't be fooled by the modest title Mozart gave his E flat string trio.
(Tonight at 6 45, Mr. Harrell joins musicians of the orchestra in a preconcert recital consisting of Brahms's B flat String Sextet).
Tonight's recital includes the early version of the piano trio no 1 in B by Brahms and Mendelssohn's E flat string quartet op12.
Tomorrow the Panocha Quartet performs alone in Janacek's First String Quartet, with Peter Frankl in Mozart's E flat Piano Quartet (K. 493) and with Jesse Levine, a violist, in Dvorak's E flat String Quintet (Op. 97).
Beethoven's Piano Quartet in E flat; selected songs; Octet in E flat; String Trio in E flat; Piano Trio in C minor; Stephan Genz, baritone; Jacques Thibaud String Trio Robert Martinn, cellist; Cynthia Raim, pianist; Julie Rosenfeld, violinist; Siiri Schutz, pianist; Bard Music Festival Chamber Players, 8 30 p.m.
WHAT we see in "The Ambassadors," or hear in a piece of third-period music like Beethoven's B Flat String Quartet, Op. 130, is the awesome spectacle of a genius learning to live in the shadow of mortality.
Mozart's E flat String Quartet K428 was immaculate, but its depths were hardly probed at all; Bartók's Third Quartet lacked real fizz and bite until the closing stages, though all its textural detail was perfectly in place.
But it has proven difficult to purify and image them; so far, the best researchers had produced was a fuzzy electron-microscopy picture of what looked like a flat string of beads.
Cut the rubber band so its a flat string.
Classical Andrew Clements Stravinsky famously described Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, originally written as the finale of the B-flat String Quartet Op 130, as "absolutely contemporary music that will stay contemporary forever".
