Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Music Director Franz Welser Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra premiere Assistant Principal Viola Stanley Konopka's new arrangement of Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3 —a score he devoured during his tumultuous Chicago adolescence, a time when “Bartók became kind of my Metallica.” Now amplified for double string orchestra, the music of the quartet swells to symphonic scale, taking on the expanded sonority long envisioned by Konopka.
Music Director Franz Welser Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra premiere Assistant Principal Viola Stanley Konopka's new arrangement of Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3 —a score he devoured during his tumultuous Chicago adolescence, a time when “Bartók became kind of my Metallica.” Now amplified for double string orchestra, the music of the quartet swells to symphonic scale, taking on the expanded sonority long envisioned by Konopka.
