Aizuri Quartet Concert

Winners of the coveted Cleveland Quartet Award, the Aizuri Quartet performed a bold program featuring a soulful, beautiful and surprising collection of songs from diverse time periods, traditions and styles, written and arranged for string quartet. “Elegant, inquisitive,” is The New Yorker’s comment on this young quartet, noted for concerts with trailblazing, imaginative programming. Commissions range from new arrangements of vocal pieces by Hildegarde von Bingen and Carlo Gesualdo to Shawn Jaeger’s we were happy were we, premiered this season. The quartet draws its name from aizuri-e, a style of predominantly blue Japanese wood-block printing notable for its vibrancy and striking detail. Program: [10:36] Shawn Jaeger, we were happy were we [27:47] Robert Schumann, String Quartet in A minor, op. 41/1 “The Aizuri Songbook” [1:01:12] Franz Schubert/Michi Wiancko, “Der Lindenbaum” from Winterreise, D. 911 [1:06:29] Clara Schumann/Karen Ouzounian, “Ich Stand in Dunkeln Träumen,” op