Honoring their 50th Anniversary Season, the American String Quartet returns to the Austin Chamber Music Festival for a celebratory concert with long-time collaborator and legendary pianist, Anton Nel. The quartet performs a riveting program featuring Ludwig van Beethoven and Dmitri Shostakovich and will be joined by Nel in the exuberant Piano Quintet by Robert Schumann.

Program

String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2 | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

• Allegro

• Adagio cantabile

• Scherzo: Allegro

• Allegro molto, quasi presto

String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Minor, Op. 138 | Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

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Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 | Robert Schumann (1810–1856)

• Allegro brillante

• In modo d’una marcia. Un poco largamente

• Scherzo: Molto vivace

• Allegro ma non troppo

AMERICAN STRING QUARTET

Peter Winograd & Laurie Carney, violins
Daniel Av­sha­lo­mov, viola | Wolfram Koes­sel, cello

with Anton Nel, piano

Approximate run time: 75 minutes, plus one short intermission

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