AFFINITY QUARTET

MOZART | BARTOK | BEETHOVEN

Nicholas Waters, Ioana Tache, violins

William Clark, viola

Mee Na Lojewski, cello

Mozart String Quartet No. 16 in E flat major, K. 428 (1783) i Allegro non troppo iiAndanteconmoto,A-flatmajor iiiMenuetto&Trio iv Allegro vivace

Bartók String Quartet no.3 (1927)

Intermission

Beethoven String Quartet op.59 no.1 ‘Razumovsky’ (1806) i Allegro iiAllegrettovivaceesemprescherzando iii Adagio molto e mesto ivThèmerusse,Allegro

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