CASSAT STRING QUARTET with URSULA OPPENS, piano
MAY 23, 2021, 8:00 PM (ET)
PROGRAM
Fanny Mendelssohn: Selections from Das Jahr (Ursula Oppens, piano)Victoria Bond: Blue and Green Music (world premiere online) (Cassatt String Quartet) *
Amy Beach: Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor Op.67 (Cassatt String Quartet with Ursula Oppens)
* This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
TERRENCE WILSON, piano
MAY 2, 2021, 8:00 PM (ET)
“One of the biggest pianistic talents to have emerged in this country in the last 25 years” Baltimore Sun
PROGRAM
Haydn: Andante and Variations in f minor, Hob. XVII:6Liszt: Funèrailles (from “Harmonies Poétiques et Réligieuses”)
Amy Beach: Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor Op.67 (Cassatt String Quartet with Ursula Oppens)
Rachmaninoff: 4 Etudes tableaux from Op. 39 (Nos. 1, 2, 5, 9)
MET ORCHESTRA MUSICIANS
FEBRUARY 21, 2021, 8:00 PM (ET)
Noted as one of today's most stylistically versatile and musically satisfying orchestras.
Caterina Szepes, Violin
Stacey Shames, Harp
Bruno Eicher, Violin
Mary Hammann, Viola
Kari Jane Docter, Cello
PROGRAM
Camille Saint-Saëns: Fantasie in A Major, Op. 124 for violin and harpCaterina Szepes, violin; Stacey Shames, harp
Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thais Caterina Szepes, violin; Stacey Shames, harp
Gabriela Lena Frank: Zapatos de Chincha
Bruno Eicher, violin; Kari Jane Docter, cello
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Trio in C Minor, Op. 9 No. 3 Bruno Eicher, violin; Mary Hammann, viola; Kari Jane Docter, cello
ALESSIO BAX & LUCILLE CHUNG, piano duo
JANUARY 24, 2021, 8:00 PM (ET)
PROGRAM
Claude Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (for piano four hands)Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka (complete original version for piano four hands)
SCENE I
The Shrove-Tide Fair
Russian Dance
SCENE II
Petrushka
SCENE III
The Blackamoor
Waltz (Blackamoor and Ballerina)
SCENE IV
The Shrove-Tide Fair (Towards Evening)
Wet-Nurses’ Dance
Peasant with Bear
Gypsies and a Rake Vendor
Dance of the Coachmen
Masqueraders
The Scuffle (Blackamoor and Petrushka)
Death of Petrushka
Police and the Juggler
Apparition of Petrushka’s Double
Encore: Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 6 — Vivace
JESSE MILLS, violin & RIEKO AIZAWA, piano
NOVEMBER 15, 2020, 8:15 PM (ET)
Founding members of the Horszowski Trio
PROGRAM
Olivier Messiaen: Theme and Variations for Violin and PianoLudwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96 for Violin and Piano
Allegro moderato
Adagio espressivo
Scherzo: Allegro—Trio
Poco allegretto
Paul Chihara: "Storm" after The Tempest Sonata (from Four Reveries on Beethoven, 2018) for Solo Piano
Maurice Ravel: Sonata No. 2 in G Major for Violin and Piano
Allegretto
Blues Moderato
Perpetuum mobile. Allegro