Delgani III – Beethoven Reimagined

Delgani String Quartet and Cascadia Composers

Saturday, February 8, 2025 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)

Lincoln Recital Hall (LH 75) at Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States

$30 ($10 student; ages 12 & under free)

TBA — Selected works (from Cascadia Composers call-for-scores)
Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130
Ludwig van Beethoven — Grosse Fuge, Op. 133

"Beethoven Reimagined" features one of the most ambitious works ever conceived for the string quartet: Beethoven's Op. 130. The heartbreaking Cavatina moved Beethoven to tears as he was composing it, and the 15 minute Grosse Fuge finale was so challenging to audiences that Beethoven published his quartet with an alternative ending. The first half of this program features short new works inspired by Beethoven's remarkable quartet, from a collaborative call-for-scores with Cascadia Composers.

Delgani Quartet offers five live performances of this program in four cities, Feb. 2-9. Click "More info" for details.

About Delgani String Quartet

http://www.delgani.org

About Cascadia Composers

http://www.cascadiacomposers.org

About Anthea Kreston, violin

Violinist Anthea Kreston sometimes just needs to pinch herself. How did she get so lucky? She was the first American violinist to play in a major European string quartet, the Artemis Quartet – and she travelled the world, performing on some of the most legendary stages a person could dream of, from Carnegie Hall to Wigmore – from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to Seoul. She was a Professor at the Universität der Kunste Berlin, where Clara Schumann and Schoenberg taught. She also was a Master Teacher at the Queen Elizabeth Chapel in Brussels, where her students won competitions from Australia to New York. She loves to write – penning a classical music blog which was one of the top-5 most read music blogs internationally, and has an awesome husband and two funny and generous daughters. Her recent release on Warner Classics is a recording of Shostakovich Quartets and Piano Quintet, and she has hosted her own podcast from the Boulez Hall in the heart of Berlin. She has played in the Berlin Philharmonic, and as concertmaster of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. But most of all, she loves being with her family, growing tomatoes, and petting bunnies.

https://musicanddance.uoregon.edu/directory/profiles/all/akreston