The Juilliard String Quartet plays a wide range of classical music, and has recorded works by composers such as Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bartók, Debussy, and Shostakovich, while also promoting more contemporary composers such as Elliott Carter, Ralph Shapey, Henri Dutilleux and Milton Babbitt.
It has performed with other noted musicians such as Aaron Copland, Glenn Gould, Benita Valente and also (in its earlier days) with the famous scientist Albert Einstein. They have participated on the soundtrack of Immortal Beloved movie
The Juilliard String Quartet was founded in 1946 at the Juilliard School in New York. The original members were violinists Robert Mann and Robert Koff, violist Raphael Hillyer, and cellist Arthur Winograd; Current members are Joseph Lin and Ronald Copes violinists, violist Roger Tapping, and cellist Astrid Schween
Program:
Beethoven: String Quartet in A Major, Opus 18 #5 (1798-1800) (19)
Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, Opus 76 #5 (1796-7) (10)
Dvorak: String Quartet in C Major, Opus 61 (1881) (7)
