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Jasper Quartet will play lyrical items by Dvorak, Schumann and Grażyna Bacewicz
By Peter Alexander Feb. 15 at 4:30 p.m.
The Takács Quartet live performance sequence will characteristic a visitor ensemble Sunday and Monday (4 p.m. Feb. 18 and seven :30 p.m. Feb. 19; particulars under) that’s named for a spot none of them have ever visited.
The Jasper String Quartet is called for the nationwide park in Canada that they’ve solely seen in photographs—and a poster in at the least certainly one of their properties. “Once we began the quartet it was fairly tough to consider a superb title,” explains cellist Rachel Henderson Freivogel.
“We thought of issues that we actually appreciated to do, and one was being outdoors in a stupendous place. Our violist on the time mentioned ‘What about Jasper? That’s a very stunning place!’ And we liked the title, and we wished to evoke pure magnificence. It was straightforward to pronounce and simply felt proper to us. The closest we’ve been is Banff (about 180 miles south of Jasper)—though we do have a giant poster of Jasper in my home.”
It’s doubtless they haven’t had time to get to the Canadian park as a result of they’re too busy with their music. The skilled quartet-in-residence at Temple College’s Heart for Gifted Younger Musicians, they’ve launched eight albums. Earlier they have been graduate quartet-in-residence at Rice College and Yale College with the Tokyo String Quartet, they’ve received prime prizes and quite a few chamber music competitions, and have been the primary ensemble chosen for Yale College of Music’s Horatio Parker Memorial Prize. They’re presently within the eighth season of Jasper Chamber Concert events, a efficiency sequence based by the quartet that’s presently live-streamed from Philadelphia.
Their program in Boulder exemplifies the Jasper Quartet’s artistic strategy to programming. It opens with alternatives from Dvořák’s Cypresses, a set of affection songs that the composer set for string quartet. That will likely be adopted by the Quartet No. 4 by the Lithuanian/Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, and Schumann’s Quartet No. 1 in A minor.
This particular program developed from the thought of a live performance centered on lyricism, or an expression of affection in music. “The Cypresses match very effectively into that, since they’re settings of affection songs,” Freivogel says. “The Bacewicz string quartet relies considerably on people tunes. The second motion is extremely lyrical, and I feel there’s love there, additionally. And the third motion [of Schumann’s quartet] is only a stunning love track.
“We attempt to decide items that basically converse to one another in an fascinating manner. And [these pieces] all work collectively very well.”
Dvořák organized 12 out of 18 songs within the unique Cypresses cycle for string quartet. Of these 12, the Jasper will play six actions. “It made sense for us to play six of them due to the size of the opposite items,” Freivogel says. “We wished to create a set that went collectively and had some distinction in it, as a result of all of them are very, very stunning. Those that we chosen have a pure movement. Some are very easy and sluggish, and others are extra thrilling.”
Bacewicz is probably going the least identified composer on this system. “We’ve been desirous to play her music for fairly a very long time,” Freivogel says. “That is the primary program that we constructed along with her music, however we would love to play extra of it.
“The primary quartet is a chunk that our quartet teaches so much. We bought to know this piece by engaged on it with some nice college students, and actually liked the piece and wished to play it. It’s very approachable, and there’s a whole lot of lyricism within the first and second actions. After which the third motion is a really thrilling form of neo-classic dance that goes and goes.”
Schumann wrote three string quartets in 1841–42, a time when he was devoting himself to writing chamber music. The Op. 41 set of three quartets was devoted to Mendelssohn, however was given as a birthday current to Schumann’s spouse, Clara.
“Along with the sluggish motion—and I converse for the quartet—I simply love Schumann’s model of writing and the sweetness in it,” Freivogel says. “You possibly can hear within the first motion how the dialog flows across the quartet. It’s carried out in such a stupendous manner. And seeing it reside in particular person, there’s an power within the room. You see how we’re speaking with one another and having this dialog, and the language is about human emotions.
“I feel that that comes by in a joyful and fantastic manner.”
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Jasper String Quartet
J Freivogel and Karen Kim, violins; Andrew Gonzalez, viola; and Rachel Henderson Freivogel, cello
- Dvořák: Alternatives from Cypresses
I. “I Know that on My Like to Thee”
II. “Loss of life Reigns in Many a Human Breast”
III. “When Thy Candy Glances Fall on Me”
IX. “Thou Solely, Pricey One”
XI. “Nature Lies Peaceable in Slumber and Dreaming”
XII. “You Ask Why My Songs” - Grażyna Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 4 (1951)
- Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, op. 41 no. 1
4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 18 and seven:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 19
Grusin Music Corridor
In-person and streaming tickets HERE
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