Sarasota Music Festival: Miró Quartet Plays Schubert

Composed in 1938, Henri Tomasi’s delightful Concert Champêtre ushers us into the elegant, stately world of 17th- and 18th-century courtly dance music. Icelandic cellist and SMF alum Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir performs the fascinating Bow to String, composed especially for her by her countryman Daniel Bjarnason. Schubert wrote the stormy Rondo for Josef Slavik, performing it with his friend less than two years before his untimely death. Schubert’s String Quintet, written in the composer’s final burst of inspiration, is brought to life by Thorsteinsdóttir and the GRAMMY®-nominated Miró Quartet.