One of the world’s best string ensembles,...
One of the world’s best string ensembles, the Bartok Quartet, will perform Saturday in a free concert at Pomona College.
The performance is funded by a Scripps College endowment, the Bessie Bartlett Frankel fund, which has provided a free annual chamber music concert for 30 years.
The Bartok Quartet was formed in 1957, 12 years after the death of its namesake, Hungarian composer Bela Bartok.
The group features Peter Komlosand Geza Hargitai on violin, Geza Nemeth on viola, and Laszlo Mezo on cello.
Their recordings and performances of Bartok’s works have been critically acclaimed.
In a 1990 Times review of a performance by the Bartok Quartet in Los Angeles, Herbert Glass wrote that the audience was so adoring that it would have stayed all night if the group had continued to play. Glass described the concert by using these words: silken, lusty and seraphic.
Saturday night’s program will include Haydn’s “Quartet in D, Opus 76, No. 5” and Bartok’s “Quartet No. 4.”
The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in Bridges Hall of Music at Pomona College, 150 E. 4th St., Claremont. For more information, call (714) 621-8555, Ext. 3266.
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