The Gewandhaus Quartet plays the 2nd movement - Romance Andante - of Mozart's Serenade in G Major: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music).
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The Gewandhaus Quartet claims to be the oldest continuously active string quartet in history, and it has reason on its side, in that the principal strings of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra have been performing as the Gewandhaus Quartet for nearly two hundred years. The present foursome, though - Frank-Michel Erben and Conrad Suske, violins; Volker Metz, viola; and Jurnjakob Timm, cello - have been together merely for a decade. They played Sunday afternoon at San Francisco State University's McKenna Theater for an audience that I suspect w...