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On this episode of Encore Houston, Da Camera hosts the Aizuri Quartet and a concert at the Menil Collection featuring a pair of Medieval and Renaissance arrangements as well as two radically different quartets between Haydn and Beethoven.
Music in this episode:
- HILDEGARD VON BINGEN, arr. Alex Fortes: Columba aspexit
- CARLO GESUALDO, arr. Alex Fortes: O tenebroso giorno and “Io parto” e non piú dissi
- FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: String Quartet No. 49 in B minor, Op. 64, no. 2
- LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
- Emma Frucht, violin
- Miho Saegusa, violin
- Ayane Kozasa, viola
- Karen Ouzounian, cello
- Performance date: 1/27/2020
- Originally aired: 1/30/2021
New episodes of Encore Houston air Saturdays at 10 PM, with a repeat broadcast Sundays at 4 PM, all on Houston Public Media Classical.