Ear-Catching, Modern Madrigals for String Quartet

It says a lot for Stephen Hartke 's "Night Songs for a Desert Flower" that when the Brentano String Quartet performed the work alongside quartets by Haydn and Beethoven at Zankel Hall on Wednesday evening, it seemed fully a part of the continuum: a modern extension of the musical language those composers spoke and as eloquent in its way as the ...

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