A stunning program of works by Beethoven, Arensky and Prokofiev, all mining overlapping Russian folkloric themes, interpreted by the Avalon Quartet ("Engrossed, impassioned and imaginative..." - The New York Times). The Opus 59 No. 2 "Razumovsky" Quartet represents the pinnacle of Beethoven's quartet writing, revolutionary in character and symphonic in reach. Arensky's arresting work is for two cellos, and Prokofiev's Quartet No. 2 bears his infatuation with folk instruments.

Avalon String Quartet: Blaise Magniere, violin; Marie Wang, viola; Cheng-Hou Lee, cello; Yehuda Hanani, cello.