The unrequited love of Bartók for Stefi Geyer conveyed in his first string quartet may recall to mind Beethoven’s work, but in Bartók’s string quartet the hopeful progression does not come to absolution but to reconciliation. Janacek’s 13 part piano-work An Overgrown Path is also performed in an instrumentation for string quartet. More recently Bartók’s pupil Veress was re-discovered, reason enough to program his second string quartet.