“Their performance was filled with subtlety and wonder”¦ the playing was breathtaking in its precision, dynamism, and agility”¦a thrilling encounter.” (The Independent) Regarded internationally as one of the foremost string quartets of the day, the Hagen Quartet consists of the two brothers Lukas (violin) and Clemens (cello) and their sister Veronika Hagen (viola), along with violinist Rainer Schmidt, who has been with the group for more than 20 years. For this return performance – they last appeared in Ann Arbor in 1998 – the Hagen Quartet presents a program of Beethoven quartets as part of UMS’s focus on musical renegades.

Program
· Beethoven : String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1 (1801)
· Beethoven : String Quartet in f minor, Op. 95 (1810)
· Beethoven : String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74 (1809)