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Boston, MA | Boston Symphony Orchestra

  • The BYSO Youth Center for Music 235 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA, 02115 United States (map)

Between Two Worlds | Beethoven & Romanticism

Lydian String Quartet
Clara Lyon, violin 1
Miki-Sophia Cloud, violin 2
Mark Berger, viola
Joshua Gordon, cello

Scott Burnham, speaker

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 16 in F, Op. 135

Beethoven’s last five string quartets hold a special place in Western music history. Though Beethoven is quite fittingly imagined to be the composer who bridged the Classical and Romantic periods, these works seem to operate from some different cultural geography altogether. Timeless, enigmatic, existential, deadly serious and bluntly humorous, full of extreme contrasts, the late quartets are quite unlike anything that came before or after. This group of works is often held up as the quintessential expression of artistic “lateness,” of that which happens to artistic expression toward the end of an artist’s life. Beethoven scholar Scott Burnham discusses the special qualities of Beethoven’s late style as demonstrated through a performance by the acclaimed Boston-based Lydian String Quartet of his final string quartet, Op. 135, with our dear friend and guest artist Miki-Sophia Cloud.

Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 6:00pm EST

Ticket information here

Earlier Event: December 14
Waltham, MA / BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY