The four musicians of the Shanghai Quartet continually raise the bar on their elegant style to fuse the delicacy of Eastern music with the emotional span of the Western canon. The result is a musical stew, hearty and delicious, filled with Chinese folk music, European masterworks and the best of contemporary repertoire.
On Thursday, audiences are invited to taste of the quartet’s work when it appears onstage at the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Chamber music enthusiasts will be presented with Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op.132 and Bartok’s Quartet No. 4, impeccably performed in the classical style. But these four artists take it a step further when they present selections from their album “Chinasong,” a collection of Chinese folk songs arranged by the quartet’s second violinist, Yi-Wen Jiang.
