Word: borromeo
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Among the upcoming events in the Gardner Museum's Sunday Concert Series are the Complete Piano Sonatas of Beethoven, Part 1, featuring Seymour Lipkin, on Oct.20, a recital of works by Mozart, Bach, Couperin, and Haydn for harpsihord and flute on Oct. 27, and the Borromeo String Quartet performing Dvor ak and Mozart on Nov.3. All concerts begin at 1:30 pm and the $9 fee for college students includes museum admission. For more information about upcoming concerts and ticket information, call...
...have one violin called a Rocca that's being played by a concert player in New York and I have [another viola] called a Pressenda that's being played in the Borromeo quartet...
...their closing work, the Quartet performed Schumann's Quartet in A Major, Op. 41, No. 3. Unlike other quartets less given to subtlety, the Borromeo was clearly comfortable with the tender, non-symphonic nature of the music...
...Adagio molto, Allafranchini supplied enough mugging at the audience for the entire concert. Perhaps this practice, not shared by the Borromeo's other members, prevented the movement from obtaining its proper introspective feel...
...last movement, marked Allegro molto vivace, alternates between two sections. The Borromeo's execution of the first recalled the sparkling bounce of the Haydn; the second possessed dignity and fitting selfassurance. Here, the Quartet's firm statements carried just the right exuberance through the finale...