Quatuor Ebène

Experience Beethoven’s wit, daring, and sheer force in quartets that Quatuor Ébène performs with “white-hot interpretive intensity and fantasy” (The Strad). The composer’s early-period D-Major Quartet is known for its lyrical and contemplative nature, but its buoyant finale nearly bursts with propulsive energy. The “Serioso” is an especially stormy and impassioned piece, which makes its ultimate triumph even more transcendent. Also featured is the Second “Razumovsky” Quartet, in which Russian folk music infiltrates Beethoven’s tempest.