Late Quartets
The extreme musical testament of some iconic composers

Bach: Contrapunct n.18 from The Art of the Fugue
Janáček: String Quartet n.2 “Intimes Lettres”
Beethoven: Große Fuge op.133
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor op.80

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‘900
A program dedicated to the very beginning of the “short century” as in Eric Hobsbawm definition of the XX century

Webern: Langsamer Satz (1905)
Ravel: String quartet in F major (1903)
Schönberg: String Quartet n. 1 in D minor (1905)

OR

Webern: Langsamer Satz (1905)
Respighi: String quartet in D major (1906)
OR
Prokofiev: String Quartet n.1 in B minor (1931)
Ravel: String quartet in F major (1903)

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Italian Program No. 1
Boccherini: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 2, No. 6
Verdi: Quartet in E minor
~Interval~
Puccini: Crisantemi
Respighi: Quartet in D major

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Italian Program No. 2
Mozart: String Quartet No.1 in G major, K.80/73f
Verdi: Quartet in E minor
~Interval~
Wolf: Italian Serenade
Respighi: Quartet in D major