Performers

Antje Weithaas . violin and direction

Program

Felix Mendelssohn
String quartet No. 6 F Minor op. 80

Mieczysław Weinberg
Concertino for violin and strings op. 42

Ludwig van Beethoven
String quartet No. 14 Streichquartett Nr. 14 C sharp minor op. 131

Compositions that were written at particular biographical points: Mendelssohn processed the death of his sister. Weinberg sought a "beautiful sound" in his tonal language after expulsion and Soviet coercion. Beethoven achieved "the dance of the world itself" (Richard Wagner) in the rare key of C-sharp minor about a year before his death.