Firsts

Beethoven: Quartet in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1

Thomas Adès: Arcadiana

Nielsen: Quartet in G Minor, Op. 13

Praised by the Washington Post as “one of the best quartets before the public today,” the Danish String Quartet brings a rewarding and unusual program to the Festival. The repertoire spans 200 years, from Beethoven’s first published string quartet to the quartet that the artists’ accomplished fellow Dane, Carl Nielsen, completed in 1888, to Arcadiana, a set of seven brief idylls by the celebrated contemporary Englishman, Thomas Adès.