Concert One

Life's a beach

Amy Beach was a trailblazing composer who wrote with her heart on her sleeve. Join pianist Jane Coop and the Vetta String Quartet performing the Haydn Sunrise Quartet, Shostakovich’s earliest quartet and the Amy Beach Quintet.

Joseph Haydn               String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 76, No. 4, "Sunrise" 
Dmitri Shostakovich    String Quartet no. 1 in C major, opus 49 
Amy Beach                     Piano Quintet in F sharp minor, Op. 67