In the 2021-2022 season, we are excited to announce “Dido Reimagined”, a new performance project sparked by the famous “Dido’s Lament” from Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas. We have invited composer Melinda Wagner and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann to respond to this aria, and more broadly to the story of Queen Dido, with a large-scale work that we will perform with soprano Dawn Upshaw, together with Purcell’s aria and other selections from Baroque opera.

We are excited to be joining the Faculty of the Yale School of Music! At Yale, in addition to appearing in concert every semester, we look forward to coaching YSM’s accomplished graduate students, and to interacting with YSM’s faculty and the University community at large. Continue reading…

The Brentano Quartet is now on (or at least behind) the silver screen! The critically acclaimed film “A Late Quartet”, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener, and directed by Yaron Zilberman, opened on November 2.

Based on Beethoven’s late quartet, opus 131, the film uses our new recording of this work as the basis of its soundtrack. Our cellist Nina, complete with glamorous hairdo, has a walk-on role (appearing as herself, a role she is perfectly suited for), and best of all gets to hear her name said, several times, by some of her favorite actors!

 

Check out the film’s website here: alatequartet.com

 

or go to the movies and see it today.

Here’s a live concert recording from Princeton University — a beautiful concert hall and also our school!