From the category archives:

Ciompi Quartet

Mozart’s Dissonant Moment

January 27, 2011

In its free Lunchtime Classics series in the Perkins Library Rare Book Room, the Ciompi Quartet has been exploring the works of Mozart. On Tuesday, their performance of the String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, nicknamed “Dissonance” for the weird Adagio at the beginning, left me puzzled. Not “there must be a mistake in

Baritone Valentin Lanzrein & the Ciompi Quartet

January 21, 2011

This season, Duke’s own Ciompi Quartet has been developing two intertwined threads. In its free series of Lunchtime Classics concerts, they’ve explored the works of Mozart, using short performances to both entertain and educate audiences on certain aspects of the composer’s work. (See Chris Vitiello’s review of the second Lunchtime concert.) The third and penultimate Lunchtime

Ciompi’s Lunch Menu: Mozart a la Haydn, with a Sprig of Bach

December 1, 2010

The Ciompi Quartet continued its exploration of Mozart’s string quartets in the second of four “Lunchtime Classics” concerts on November 30. Coming from an unseasonably warm and humid November day into the paneled dimness of the Rare Book Room at Duke’s Perkins Library gave the capacity gathering the comfortable feeling of a salon. Colleagues recounted

Ciompi Quartet, Mozart, & Legacy

November 29, 2010

The history of classical music continues to intrigue us, in no small part, because of the myriad stories we can extract from it. One such story is about the isolated genius, striving in solitude to unleash the particular manifold of his own subjectivity. But even prior to the electronic age, when homage and appropriation became

Ciompi Quartet in the Classical Voice of North Carolina

November 19, 2010

The Classical Voice of North Carolina, an invaluable resource for local classical music fans, has posted one of their trademark in-depth and enthusiastic reviews of Ciompi Quartet’s November 12 Duke Performances concert, which featured works by Mozart, Schubert, and David Lipten. (You can read The Thread‘s own review, by Peter Blackstock, here.) Calling the concert “richly satisfying,” CVNC’s

A Little Nightmare with Ciompi Quartet

November 14, 2010

The celebrated Mozart piece that opened Ciompi Quartet’s November 12 performance at Nelson Music Room—the Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major—is informally known as Eine kleine Nachtmusik, “a little serenade” or, more literally, “a little night music.” In Ictus, the modern composer David Lipten also seems nocturnally inclined, though in a different way—I

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →