Barber - Adagio for Strings (Dover Quartet)

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"Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber, performed live by Dover Quartet.

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Dover Quartet:
Joel Link, violin
Bryan Lee, violin
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
Camden Shaw, cello

DOVER BIO:

“…the Dover Quartet players have it in them to become the next Guarneri String Quartet – they’re that good.” – The Chicago Tribune

Hailed as “the next Guarneri Quartet” (Chicago Tribune) and “the young American string quartet of the moment,” (New Yorker), the Dover Quartet catapulted to international stardom in 2013, following a stunning sweep of all prizes at the Banff Competition and has since become one of the most in-demand ensembles in the world. In addition to its faculty role as the inaugural Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Dover Quartet holds residencies with the Kennedy Center, Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, Artosphere, and the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival. Among the group’s honors are the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award, and Lincoln Center’s Hunt Family Award. The Dover Quartet has won grand and first prizes at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and fourth prize at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition.

In the 2020–21 season, the Dover Quartet debuts with Berkeley’s Cal Performances and embarks on its first-ever tour of Latin America, both of which will be conducted using virtual technology. Tour performances include collaborations with the Escher Quartet and harpist Bridget Kibbey. The quartet’s first volume of the complete Beethoven string quartet cycle, which focuses on the composer’s Op. 18 quartets, was released by Cedille Records in September 2020.

Among its many notable performances in 2019–20, the Dover Quartet made its Zankel Hall debut in collaboration with Emanuel Ax and returned to London’s Wigmore Hall. Other recent collaborators include Inon Barnaton, Ray Chen, Edgar Meyer, Anthony McGill, the late Peter Serkin, and Roomful of Teeth. Equally comfortable with repertoire from a range of eras, the quartet has worked with some of the world’s foremost living composers, including Caroline Shaw and Mason Bates.

Cedille Records released the Dover Quartet’s Voices of Defiance: 1943, 1944, 1945 in October 2017; and an all-Mozart debut recording in the 2016–17 season, featuring the late Michael Tree, violist of the Guarneri Quartet. Voices of Defiance, which explores works written during World War II by Viktor Ullman, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Simon Laks, was lauded upon its release as “undoubtedly one of the most compelling discs released this year” (Wall Street Journal).

The Dover Quartet draws from the lineage of the distinguished Guarneri, Cleveland, and Vermeer quartets. Its members studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where they were mentored extensively by Shmuel Ashkenasi, James Dunham, Norman Fischer, Kenneth Goldsmith, Joseph Silverstein, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, and Peter Wiley. It was at Curtis that the Dover Quartet formed, and its name pays tribute to Dover Beach by fellow Curtis alumnus Samuel Barber.

The Dover Quartet is the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at Curtis. Their faculty residency integrates teaching and mentorship, a robust international performance career, and a cutting-edge digital presence. With this innovative residency, Curtis reinvigorates its tradition of maintaining a top professional string quartet on its faculty, while providing resources for the ensemble to experiment with new technologies and engage audiences through digital means. Working closely with students in the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet Program, the resident ensemble will recruit the most promising young string quartets and foster their development in order to nurture a new generation of leading professional chamber ensembles.

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[Brandon_]

The original was in the dark, now this is in the light. It really makes your brain go to different places while watching/listening.

[aaronchan]

Damn, that viola sound is hella THICK 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[jasonpopalisky]

All of the musicians are superb, but I must give special notice to the extraordinary viola player. This is without any doubt whatsoever the finest tone I have ever heard from this wonderful instrument. Bravo!

[barbaraklapper]

How can I give hundreds of thumbs ups?

[niapawina]

4:00 to 5:28 was the most intensely beautiful minute and a half I've heard from any quartet! If excellent were a video, it would be this!

[mrbigg]

It's simple. I see Dover Quartet, and I click to listen. The emotion, the body language cues, the phrasing...ALL came together so seamlessly 🎵🎶🎶💯

[juliekellogg]

This is breathtaking. The emotion that comes through is astounding. Music from heaven.

[bethfrancis]

Oh you are amazing. Adagio for Strings is my all time favorite and had it played at my mother-in-laws funeral at a a beautiful Cathedral. Thank you so much for your beautiful talent.

[karenv]

Wow. This piece expresses the early stages of grief so well.

[klafkekonzen]

The world deserves to hear your music Dover Quartet!
It was amazing!

[andrewcheng]

The layers of sound had a depth that made the music come alive in ways I’d never heard before with this profound and evocative piece of music. Music making of the highest order… Thank you.

[yotrakz]

I’m guessing Barber finished writing this and just smiled to himself saying, “My greatest ever”.

[bluesuerte]

This is absolutely divine. Thank you for this stunning rendition. As a violinist myself, I tip my hat off to all of you.

[richardwalker]

Powerful - they are all in their prime. They did the same Adagio in 2015 but with a black background.
It would be interesting to see them do this Adagio 40 years from now
and how they would interpret it then. Would their emotions be different when they are older?

[nicole-uypw]

barber wrote it at 26. but like 62.
the best quartet on the earth ever.

[peterb]

This is sublime. Intimate as a whisper, vast and powerful.

[aaronzacharyreed]

Damn... I've heard this piece so many times, but this one made me tear up. Bravo!

[kierstin]

The Dover Quartet performance of this is the only version I want to hear. I'm so glad you've released it on Spotify!

[gbo]

Outstanding. So great to have Dover back on YouTube again

[vnottebaere]

Plus je me "transforme" et plus cette musique me chuchote à l'oreille qu'on se connait...depuis toujours !