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The Axelrod Quartet continues its exploration of Joseph Haydn's Op. 50 with the D Major sixth member of the set, called "the Frog" because of the first violin's bariolage (rapid alternation between strings) that characterizes the last movement. The second of Benjamin Britten's three quartets, which ends with a large-scale Chacony in homage to Henry Purcell, concludes the first half of the program. The first of Beethoven's three ground-breaking Razumovsky (Op. 59) quartets brings the concert to an ebullient close.