MUSIC

Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 130 wit Große Fuge

WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 22, 2023
6:00 & 7:30 PM

The Angel’s Share
The Catacombs, Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn

$85
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Beethoven’s Late String Quartets are the only music from their period that are sure to get Listed, because they are the only music from their period that sounds absolutely contemporary to us. When they use the style of their time, they sound like pastiche, like someone imitating past styles to make a point. Otherwise, they sound timeless, capable of having been written yesterday. The Calidore String Quartet will play the Op. 130 Quartet with its original intellectually colossal fugal finale, which Beethoven excised out of fear it was ungainly.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The concerts will preceded by one of Death of Classical’s usual deplorable beverage-and-cheese receptions. For better quality, Sea Witch: a good bar, with good pub grub — and a giant aquarium!