Alban Berg Quartet Wednesday · February 20, 2008 Bailey Hall · 8pm

Gunter Pichler and  Gerhard Schulz, violin
Isabel Charisus, viola
Valentin Erben, violoncello

"One of the greatest ensembles of our time" - San Francisco Chronicle

"The Alban Berg Quartet have achieved legendary standards in chamber music playing" - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

For over thirty years, the Alban Berg String Quartet has performed regularly in music capitals and major festivals throughout the world - and will soon grace the stage of Bailey Hall, presenting the first concert on their farewell U.S. tour, a limited engagement that includes stops at the Library of Congress, Lincoln Center and Yale University.

The name 'Alban Berg' [early 20th-c composer in Schoenberg's circle, best-known for his operas Wozzeck and Lulu] symbolizes the quartet's mission of giving the most harmonious interpretation of the works they perform, and of extending their repertoire from the classical to the avant-garde. One of the most distinguished and outstanding string quartet ensembles of our time, the ABQ has received over 30 major international recording awards, representing virtually every top prize of note.

Program*
HAYDN: Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1, Hob.III:81
BERG: Quartet for Strings, Op. 3 (1910)
BEETHOVEN: Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 
* subject to change at artist's discretion

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Concert Parking & Shuttle
Free parking in the Schoellkopf Field garage, 1.5 blocks from the hall. Complimentary parking shuttle also provided - for a schedule of stops and times, click HERE