Beethoven Celebrates Healing and Divinity

Beethoven Celebrates Healing and Divinity
The Brooklyn Rider quartet (L–R) : violinists Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, violist Nicholas Cords, and cellist Michael Nicolas. Erin Baiano
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It’s amazing how good music can lift your mood.

On May 10, the string quartet Brooklyn Rider performed live at public radio station WGBH’s Fraser Performance Studio in Boston. For their last piece, they played the “String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 III. Molto Adagio—“Holy Song of Thanksgiving of a Convalescent to the Deity, in the Lydian Mode” by Ludwig van Beethoven.