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The Artemis Quartet, From Berlin With Love (For The Classics)

Nikolaj Lund

Gregor Sigl, the violist of the Artemis Quartet, talks about the program for their Saturday night performance on the Fontanaseries, which will be held in Stetson Chapel at Kalamazoo College. The concert begins with Beethoven's String Quartet Op 18 No. 3, his favorite of the Op 18 set. It feels "spring-like," and often serves to center the players in their music at the beginning of a performance, he says. 

The next piece on the program, Bartok's String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, was written during the first world war, and it remains an unsettling masterwork that maintains its relevance. Sigl says audiences sometimes take time at intermission to talk and release pent-up emotions about the piece. The concert ends with Robert Schumann's Quartet Op 41 No. 1, and Sigl reflects on how Schumann's music reflects what we know of his personality.

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Cara Lieurance is the local host of NPR's All Things Considered on 1021 WMUK and covers local arts & culture on Let's Hear It on 89.9 Classical WMUK weekday mornings at 10 - 11 am.
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