Quartet in E-flat, op.44 no. 3. Felix Mendelssohn
Quartet in F, K. 168. Wolfgang A. Mozart
Quartet no. l, op.25 Benjamin Britten

The Jupiter Quartet with
Michael Jones, violin - Steve Levintow, viola - Andrew Davies, violin - Paul Rhodes, cello

The Jupiter Quartet was in residence at the Berkeley Art Center for the 1998-99 season. This program was recorded at the Berkeley Art Center, August 30, 1998. It was also viewed on Berkeley's Public Access Cable as part of the "Live Oak Concerts" Series.
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Copyright 1998
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Program notes: Mozart wrote his Quartet" K 168, along with five other quartets, in his seventeenth year, 1773, Though less fully developed than Mozart's mature work, the piece already reveals an essential aspect of his sensibility in its interweaving of melancholy and extroversion. The first three bars of the first movement sing blithely in F major, cadencing after an upward octave jump; the next two bars answer, after a silent beat, with a moody chromatic figure, which in turn gives way to a dashing scale and another jaunty F major cadence, So the movement goes in its brief course. The Andante foreshadows later sacred music in its combination of intense chromatic harmonies with relatively simple, flowing rhythms. A stately and straightforward minuet follows, The work finishes with a brilliant fugue; for the last entry of the fugue subject, all four instruments play in unison.