Sunday, March 4, 2012

BORROMEO EXUDES AURA OF BEETHOVEN.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: RON EMERY Special to the Times Union

The Borromeo String Quartet is now just one concert shy of playing all 17 of Ludwig van Beethoven's string quartets in a special two-year, millennium series as part of the Schenectady Museum and Union College concert series. Since the Borromeo is only 11 years old, the traversal of such a body of chamber music is a major accomplishment, a musical marathon of note but one which is a standard challenge among string quartets.

At the Friday evening affair, the Borromeo (Nicholas Kitchen and Ruggero Allifranchini, violins; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; and Yeesun Kim, cello) returned to play one quartet from each of …

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