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Chamber Music In The Greene Space: The Tokyo String Quartet

WQXR Radio
Published April 7, 2011 at 6:24 PM EDT
The Tokyo Quartet untangles Beethoven's complex <em>Grosse Fuge</em> at WQXR's Greene Space.
Pete Checchia
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The Tokyo Quartet untangles Beethoven's complex Grosse Fuge at WQXR's Greene Space.

Japan's vibrant classical music heritage spawned one of the great string quartets of the last 30 years. Watch the Tokyo String Quartet play Beethoven, Bartok and Haydn in New York City's Greene Space.

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Program

  • Haydn: String Quartet in F, Op. 77, No. 2

  • Bartok: String Quartet No. 4 - Allegretto pizzicato

  • Beethoven: Grosse Fuge (with end of Cavatina, Op. 130)

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