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Program Notes – 2020 Orcas Island Chamber Music Livestream Festival

The Miró Quartet: The Complete Beethoven String Quartets
July 16 – August 8, 2020

(All works in this series by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Week 1: July 16, 17, & 18 (click to view pdf)
EARLY QUARTETS: Opus 18 – Beethoven at 30

July 16, 2020 “The Journey Begins”
String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3
String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2

July 17, 2020 “Early Influences”
String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5
String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1

July 18, 2020 “What Does the Future Hold?”
String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4
String Quartet No. 6 in B-flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6

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Week 2: July 23, 24, & 25 (click to view pdf)
MIDDLE PERIOD: Opus 59 – The “Razumovsky” Quartets

July 23, 2020 “Razumovsky Quartets: Music for the Future”
String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Razumovsky Op. 59, No. 1

July 24, 2020 “Russian Themes and Heavenly Dreams”
String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Razumovsky Op. 59, No. 2

July 25, 2020 “The Hero, the Master”
String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Razumovsky Op. 59, No. 3

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Week 3: July 30, 31, & August 1 (click to view pdf)
FROM MIDDLE to LATE: Opus 74, Opus 95, Opus 127, and Opus 132 – Beethoven in Transition

July 30, 2020 “Napoleon, Vienna, and a Crisis of Creativity”
String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 74, Harp
String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95, Serioso

July 31, 2020 “Out of the Desert: the Late Quartets”
String Quartet No. 12 in E–flat Major, Op. 127

August 1, 2020 “Touched by Death, Touched by God”
String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132

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Week 4: August 6, 7, & 8 (click to view pdf)
THE LATE QUARTETS: Opus 130 and Opus 133, Opus 131, Opus 135, and the Last Finale – The Last Years (1825-6)

August 6, 2020 “The Genius, the Titan: Opus 130 and the Great Fugue
String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major, Op. 130
Große Fuge, Op. 133 (in B-flat Major)

August 7, 2020 “On the Edge of Understanding: Opus 131
String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131

August 8, 2020 “ ‘Must it Be?’ And the Final Movement”
String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135
String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130

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Aloysia Friedmann, Founder and Artistic Director

Alyosia

Ms. Friedmann is a violinist and violist, whose broad-ranging career has included tours in Japan, Europe, South America and the U.S., performances with New York’s most prestigious musical ensembles, and a special onstage role on Broadway. Trained at The Juilliard School and the University of Washington, Friedmann plays on a Grancino violin and a Grancino viola.

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