April 2/3, 2023
New York Philharmonic String Quartet
Frank Huang, violin
Qianqian Li, violin
Cynthia Phelps, viola
Carter Brey, cello
Wolfgang A. Mozart
String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465, Dissonance
Joel Thompson
In Response to the Madness
Anton Webern
Langsamer Satz (“Slow Movement”)
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95, Serioso
The distinguished New York Philharmonic String Quartet returns to Cincinnati. Opening with Mozart’s innovative Dissonance quartet, this program explores a range of emotions through Thompson’s stream-of-consciousness response to political mayhem, Webern’s deeply romantic expression of young love, and a Beethoven work that emanates from his own time of despair amidst failed love and worsening deafness.
