Brentano String Quartet March 23, 2012

Adult $40 | University Park Student $15 | 18 and Younger $32



The Brentano String Quartet — named for Antonie Brentano, whom some scholars think was Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved” — performs the second concert in a three-season Center for the Performing Arts program featuring all of Beethoven’s string quartets. The quartet’s playing is “passionate, uninhibited, and spellbinding,” raves a critic for The Independent of London. A Philadelphia Inquirer reviewer praises the ensemble’s “seemingly infallible instincts for finding the center of gravity in every phrase and musical gesture.” Violinists Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin and violist Misha Amory founded the quartet in 1992. Cellist Nina Lee joined in 1998. Brentano has been ensemble-in-residence at Princeton University since 1999. The program includes the quartets in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1; B-flat Major, Op. 130; and B-flat Major, Op. 133, Grosse Fuge.

Complimentary round-trip shuttle service is provided between the Eisenhower Parking Deck and Schwab Auditorium.

Official Website: http://www.cpa.psu.edu/events/bsq.html