The Borromeo String Quartet will perform in the Peterborough Town House on Sunday, July 17, at 4 p.m.
Presented by Electric Earth Concerts, the concert will feature several preludes and fugues by J. S. Bach transcribed by violinist Nicholas Kitchen.
Opening with six transcribed selections from the Well Tempered Klavier Book 1, the concert will continue with String Quartet No.1 by Gyorgy Ligeti, composed between 1953-1954. Written in the years following the death of Ligeti’s countryman Bela Bartok, his first string quartet is acknowledged to be a twentieth-century masterwork. The program will conclude with Ludwig von Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 59 No. 1 in F.
Formed in 1989, the Borromeo Quartet performs worldwide and has collaborated with many of the great composers and performers of this era. They have worked extensively with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Library of Congress and are the longtime ensemble-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Admission is $25. Tickets can be reserved online at Electricearthconcerts.org.