{"id":60666,"date":"2019-05-23T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=60666"},"modified":"2019-05-26T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T14:13:57","slug":"toronto-summer-music-celebrating-10-years","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/toronto-summer-music-celebrating-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Summer Music | Celebrating 10 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">New\u00a0Orford\u00a0String Quartet<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Haydn: String Quartet No. 34 in D Major, Op. 20 No. 4, H.III:34<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Christos Hatzis:\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">String Quartet No. 5 \u201cThe Transforming\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Beethoven:\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 \u201cRazumovsky\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This\u202fworld-class\u202fensemble celebrates its tenth anniversary with a remarkable and far-reaching program. It opens with a quartet by Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, the first master of this challenging musical medium. He composed it in 1772 for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Esterh\u00e1zy<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202ffamily<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, who were his employers<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">fabu<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">lously wealthy Hungarian nobles<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u202fRegarding the six quartets that make Haydn\u2019s Op. 20, the eminent Scottish musicologist Sir Donald\u202fTovey\u202fwrote, \u201cThere is perhaps no single or sextuple opus in the history of instrumental music which has achieved so much or achieved it so quietly.\u201d\u202fThe third movement is a zesty minuet in the Gypsy\/Romani style that was enormously popular at the time. This<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0work<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202fis followed\u202fby the world premiere of a new\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">piece<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">widely-acclaimed,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Greek-born Canadian composer Christos\u202fHatzis. Rounding out the bill is the last of the three string quartets that Count\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Razumovsky<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, the Russian ambassador in Vienna, commissioned from Beethoven in 1806. All three of them marked a significant advance on the style of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven\u2019s previous quartets. Early audiences found them challenging, but with time the \u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Razumovsky<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d quartets came to be recognized as visionary masterworks.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tickets, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcmusic.com\/tickets\/seats\/108202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New\u00a0Orford\u00a0String Quartet\u00a0 Haydn: String Quartet No. 34 in D Major, Op. 20 No. 4, H.III:34 Christos Hatzis:\u00a0String Quartet No. 5 \u201cThe Transforming\u201d Beethoven:\u00a0String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 \u201cRazumovsky\u201d\u00a0 This\u202fworld-class\u202fensemble celebrates its tenth anniversary with a remarkable and far-reaching program. 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