Virginia Arts Festival: The American String Quartet

This week WDAV makes stops at two of the Virginia Arts Festival’s chamber music venues, beginning with Great Bridge Presbyterian Church in Chesapeake, Virginia for a concert by the American String Quartet. They’ll play one of Beethoven’s earlier string quartets, known as “Compliments,” and then they’re joined by pianist Andre-Michel Schub for the lush Quintet by Cesar Franck. Following that it’s on to the Miller Studio Theater of the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts in Virginia Beach for the quartet’s performance of one of the undisputed masterwork’s of the repertory, Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden.”  The program is hosted by Mike McKay and Joe Brant.

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in G major, Op. 18 no. 2
American String Quartet

FRANCK: Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor
André-Michel Schub, piano
American String Quartet

SCHUBERT: String Quartet no. 14 in D minor, D. 810 “Death and the Maiden”
American String Quartet

(Original performances May 1st and May 3rd)

MONTEVERDI: Sfogava le stelle
Chanticleer
Matthew Oltman, director 

MAHALIA JACKSON: Walk in Jerusalem
Chanticleer
Matthew Oltman, director 

WILLIAM HAYNIE: All Night, All Day
Chanticleer
Matthew Oltman, director 

(Original performances May 8th)