Brooklyn Rider

Brooklyn Rider is one of today’s preeminent string groups, having carved out their own special space within the broader world of string quartets over fifteen years of performances. Their programming is the definition of musical adventure, while also acknowledging the ensemble’s deep historic roots: you might hear anything from late Beethoven to Persian classical music… or, perhaps, any number of living composers.

The group recently spent time in residence at ASU, and presented a concert highlighting both ends of the historical spectrum… with one of those late Beethoven Quartets, as well as a pair of pieces by living composers.

This broadcast features a concert with Brooklyn Rider from November 2018, a program including Ludwig van Beethoven’s Opus 132 String Quartet No. 15 in a-minor and a work by Caroline Shaw titled Schism, which, among other things, draws inspiration from the third movement of that same Beethoven quartet. Rounding out the program is Gabriela Lena Frank’s Kanto Kechua No.2, a work commissioned by Brooklyn Rider on the theme of healing, and one that uses material the composer wrote after receiving a devastating diagnosis of a life threatening disease.