The Ladies’ Morning Musical Club presents

Escher String Quartet with Roman Rabinovich

Adam Barnett-Hart – violin       Brendan Speltz – violin       Pierre Lapointe – viola       Brook Speltz – cello
with Roman Rabinovich – piano

“One of the top young quartets before the public today” … “notable for its polish and tonal beauty” … “a dark ambrosial view all its own,” are just a few of the glowing accolades that have been bestowed on the Escher String Quartet. The Quartet takes its name from Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher, inspired by Escher’s method of interplay between individual components working together to form a whole. The group was founded in 2005 in New York City, where its original members were studying at the Manhattan School of Music at the time.

The Escher Quartet has performed on five continents; among the venues where it has appeared include Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa at the invitation of Pinchas Zukerman. In its hometown of New York, the ensemble serves as Season Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where it has recently performed quartet cycles of Beethoven and Zemlinsky. In 2013, the Quartet became one of the very few chamber ensembles to be awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. The ensemble has recorded the complete quartets of Zemlinsky on the Naxos label and the complete quartets of Mendelssohn on the BIS label, both sets to the highest critical acclaim. The Escher’s latest release consists of the two quartets of Ives plus the Barber String Quartet (including the famous Adagio movement) with the addition of the longer, original final movement.

Tashkent-born Israeli pianist Roman Rabinovich was a winner in the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2022, following which he was praised by the New York Times for his “uncommon sensitivity and feeling.

Program
HAYDN (1732-1809)
Quartet in D major, Op. 64
No. 5 “The Lark” (1790)

JANÁČEK  (1854-1928)
Quartet No. 2
“Intimate Letters” (1928)

BRAHMS   (1833-1897)
Piano Quintet in F minor,
Op. 34 (1865)

To learn more about the Escher String Quartet visit: www.escherquartet.com

To learn more about Roman Rabinovich visit: www.romanrabinovich.net

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