Music by millennial composer Polina Nazaykinskaya join works by masters from different eras: Franz Joseph Haydn (born 1732) and Samuel Barber (born 1910). The three composers present three different styles of chamber music. Haydn pioneered the genre and became known as “the Father of the String Quartet.” Two hundred years later, Barber’s best-known work “Adagio for Strings” makes up the second movement of his Op. 11 quartet on today’s program. Russian-American Nazaykinskaya is a prolific composer whose works span all areas of classical music.

Program:

Polina Nazaykinskaya: Adagio for String Quartet

Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20, No. 3 (Hob. III:33)

Samuel Barber: Quartet in B minor, Op. 11