Front Row Classic

Alexander String Quartet and Eli Eban, clarinet
Mozart String Quintet

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Audio Program

Frederick Lifsitz, Sandy Wilson and Eli Eban introduce this week’s Front Row Concert featuring the Alexander String Quartet/Eli Eban recording of the Menuetto from Mozart’s Quintet in A Major for Clarinet and Strings, KV 581. We will also be featuring a track from their recording of Brahm’s Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 in a future Front Row concert.

p>The Alexander String Quartet has been Ensemble-in-Residence with San Francisco Performances for 25 years. We are honored to be able to present them in a variety of concerts each year. Their final performance of this season was scheduled for Saturday, May 16, and we had hoped to have a special toast to them, with all of you, to celebrate the Quartet and their ongoing relationship with SFP. But since we can't do that right now, we're thrilled to offer this preview of their upcoming CD, featuring the clarinet quintets of Mozart (this week) and Brahms (in a future installment of Front Row), with clarinetist Eli Eban. I hope you will enjoy this beautiful new recording, in anticipation of its public release in August.

Introductory Video


Frederick Lifsitz, Sandy Wilson and Eli Eban introduce this week’s Front Row Concert

Program

Zakarias Grafilo, violin
Frederick Lifsitz, violin
Paul Yarbrough, viola
Sandy Wilson, cello
Eli Eban, clarinet

MOZART
Menuetto—Trio I—Trio II from Quintet in A Major for Clarinet and Strings, KV 581
Recorded at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Belvedere, CA on June 10–14, 2019

Track from the upcoming Foghorn Classics release: Brahms & Mozart Clarinet Quintets

Download the PDF Program Notes