PERFORMANCE

The Frick Museum
Brazilian Guitar Quartet

Falla: Cuatro Piezas Españolas
Granados: El Pelele (from Goyescas)
Albéniz: Three Pieces from Suite Iberia
Lobos: Cirandas; Quartet No. 5
Guarnieri: Dança Negra; Valsa No. 8; Dança Brasileira
Mignone: Lundu; Lenda Sertaneja No. 8; Congada

Winner of the 2011 Latin Grammy Award in the “best classical album” category, the Brazilian Guitar Quartet has established itself as one of world’s leading guitar ensembles. Praised by the Washington Post for its “seductive beauty” and “virtuosic gusto,” the group’s unique combination, of regular six-string and extended-range, eight-string guitars, allows for the exploration of an original and unusual repertoire. In their more than ten years of activity, the BGQ has performed over 250 concerts in the Americas, Europe and Asia, often receiving ecstatic audience responses, garnering rave reviews, and meeting sold-out halls.

Here's one of the pieces we heard them play....