MUSIC
THURSDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 & 21, 2019
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY

Dudock Quartet Amsterdam: Haydn and Ligeti
Board of Officers Room, Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$65
http://armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/recital_series_dudok_quartet_amsterdam

The highly touted Dudock Quartet Amsterdam devotes a pair of recitals to Haydn and Ligeti, both of whom had ties to Hungary and both of whom, at some point during their lifetimes, were the greatest living composers of Western classical music. The first program explores polyphony, and adds (in addition to a bunch of short examples of early music, as you'd kind of expect in an exploration of polyphony) Beethoven's late Op. 130 quartet, which is one of the best pieces of music ever written. (If they're exploring polyphony, I guess they're going to play the original "Große Fugue" finale?) The second program is dedicated to dramatic Romanticism," and adds Mendelssohn's sixth and last quartet, which is not.

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