Sundays with the St. Lawrence String Quartet with James Austin Smith, Oboe

In the second of this season’s pair of Sunday-afternoon SLSQ performances, Stanford’s eminent resident ensemble is joined by guest oboist James Austin Smith for Mozart’s Oboe Quartet (oboe, violin, viola, and cello), composed for Mozart’s friend, the Munich oboe virtuoso Friedrich Ramm—and still considered one of the most demanding pieces in the oboe repertoire. The program also includes another technically challenging work for its day, Beethoven’s third “Rasumovsky” string quartet, plus additional… Show more works to be announced.

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