The Brentano Quartet

Repertory Offerings, 2008-09 season

Beethoven: “Grosse Fuge”, Op. 133

Beethoven: one or two other quartets, TBD

Haydn: Quartet in G-minor, Op. 20, No. 3

Haydn: Quartet in D-Minor, Op. 76, No. 2 ("Quinten")

Haydn: “The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross” (can be performed with or without an original poem by Mark Strand)

Lee Hyla: "Howl" (after the Ginsburg poem, including a recording of his reading)

Mozart: Quartet in D-minor, K 421

Mendelssohn: Quartet in A-minor, Op 13

Schoenberg: Quartet No. 4

Schumann: Quartet in A-Major, Op. 41, No. 3

Special program #1 with Peter Serkin , piano and Richard Lalli, baritone

Haydn: Quartet in D-Minor, Op. 76, No. 2 ("Quinten")

Charles Wuorinen: New Piano Quintet (commissioned by the artists)

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Schoenberg: “Ode to Napoleon” (for quartet, piano, and baritone)

Beethoven: “Grosse Fuge”, Op. 133

Special program #2 (to be performed at Carnegie Hall in spring, 2009):

Lee Hyla: "Howl" (for string quartet with a tape of Ginsburg reading his poem)

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Haydn: "The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross" (with an original poem by Mark Strand)

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