PROGRAM
Miami String Quartet and Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola
New Frontiers: How has the New World enlivened those traditional forms it inherited from the Old? This week violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama and the Miami String Quartet offer some delicious clues. The centerpiece of the program is Mozart's first viola quintet, written when the composer was just 17, but prophetic of the richness to come. Movements from two more works—Antonín Dvořák's Opus 97 viola quintet, written during the composer's three-year stay in the United States, and Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera's first quartet—observe a European musical language in distinctly North and South American styles.
MUSIC PLAYED IN THE PROGRAM
- Alberto Ginastera: Quartet No. 1, Op. 20
—IV. Allegramente rustico - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet in B-flat major, KV 174
—I. Allegro moderato
—II. Adagio - Antonín Dvořák: Quintet in E flat major, Op. 97
—III. Larghetto
- —IV. Finale; Allegro giusto
MIXED COMPANY
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LINKS AND RESOURCES
Artist profile: Miami String Quartet
