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The Terra String Quartet at Rockport Music

Three women and one man stand in formal concert attire holding their instruments, but they talk and laugh with each other casually.
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The Terra String Quartet

Sunday, June 29, 2025
7:00 PM

On WCRB In Concert with Rockport Music, the Yale School of Music’s 2024-2025 fellowship quartet-in-residence brings romantic chamber music to the seaside. The "Terras" illustrate Webern's expression of love and yearning for his soon-to-be wife in Langsamer Satz, or Slow Movement. Soprano Sydney Baedke, violist Barry Shiffman, and cellist Colin Carr join for Zemlinsky’s Maiblumen Blühten überall, or Mayflowers Blossomed Everywhere, a tragic tale of two young farm workers finding love—and death—in the fields they toiled in. The broadcast closes with Mendelssohn's Sixth String Quartet, his loving eulogy for his sister Fanny Mendelssohn's passing.

Terra String Quartet
Harriet Langley, violin
Amelia Dietrich, violin
Chih-Ta Chen, viola
Audrey Chen, cello

Barry Shiffman, Artistic Director and viola
Colin Carr, cello
Sydney Baedke, soprano

Richard STRAUSS String Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85
Alexander ZEMLINSKY Maiblumen Blühten überall
Anton WEBERN Langsamer Satz
Felix MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No. 6, in F minor, op. 80

View the digital program book for this concert

This concert was recorded on June 23, 2024, at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, MA.