Tag: Tabea Zimmerman

  • PROGRAM NOTES: ARCANTO QUARTET

    PROGRAM NOTES: ARCANTO QUARTET

    This evening the Arcanto Quartet offers us a chance to explore chamber music from the end of the 17th century to the recent past, sampling music for four players by Henry Purcell (1659–95), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), and Benjamin Britten (1913-1976).   Henry Purcell Long before the primacy of the string quartet, consort music for…