Anyway, if you answered Beethoven and you live in the Los Angeles/San Gabriel Valley area, you may be interested in the following free concert this Wednesday evening featuring the aforementioned and the Brahms Clarinet Quintet:

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Dabney Lounge, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125
FREE; no tickets or reservations required

Alan Rubink, cello
Yousi Ma, violin
Christopher Kovalchick, violin
Richard Wang, clarinet
Heide Li, viola

The program for this concert will feature Beethoven’s String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 and Brahms’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 115.

A free reception for all will follow the concert.

http://events.caltech.edu/events/event-6069.html

(Normally the quality on offer at these student chamber performances varies somewhat, but this group, especially each of its two violinists, is quite good. But then you would have to be to tackle these two touchstones of the chamber music repertoire.)

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To whet your appetite, here is a lovely video of the famous moto perpetuo finale of the third Razumovsky quartet: