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Venue

Baldwin Auditorium
Duke East Campus

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Program

“A quartet to watch,” the Quatuor Van Kuijk is a relative newcomer to the American music scene but is turning heads in a crowded field. “Style, energy and a sense of risk. These four young Frenchmen made the music smile” (The Guardian).

Making their version of a musical tasting menu, the Van Kuijks combine an international bouquet of flavors, starting with one of Mozart’s most unusual pieces: the first movement of his Dissonance Quartet, named for its radical departure from harmonic convention. So daring in its conception and piquant in its effect, the Mozart sounds strikingly modern, even in a program featuring 20th-century works by Bartók and Shostakovich. To add body and contrast to this procession, the Van Kuijks include probing Romanticism by Beethoven and Brahms, as well as zesty pizzicato by Debussy. Doleful, folk-inspired melodies by Smetana and Dvořák round out this musical feast with the soulful sounds of rural Bohemia.

Masterworks

Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465 “Dissonance"
Brahms: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2
III. Quasi minuetto, moderato
Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
II. Assez vif et bien rythmé
Haydn: String Quartet Op. 76 No. 5
II. Molto adagio – Largo cantabile e mesto
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80
I. Allegro vivace assai
Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 “From My Life”
I. Allegro vivo appassionato
Bartók: String Quartet No. 4
IV. Allegretto pizzicato
Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F Major “American”, Op. 96
II. Lento
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73
III. Allegro non troppo
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 “Razumovsky”
II. Molto adagio
Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41 No. 1
IV. Finale

*Program is subject to change