by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Thursday, July 7
Doors: 7:00 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $80.00 ($22.00 – $77.00 Concert Member)
Conductor:
Peter Oundjian
Guest Artist:
Jan Lisiecki, piano
Music Director Peter Oundjian begins a cycle of all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos, each performed by the award-winning Jan Lisiecki, whom Oundjian calls “one of the greatest piano talents of all time.” Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto was written as a showpiece for the composer as the aspiring pianist was first making a name for himself in Vienna. The high-spirited Third Piano Concerto was not complete when Beethoven first performed it—his panicked page-turner later recalled many empty pages strewn with “a few Egyptian hieroglyphs wholly unintelligible to me.” Beethoven played the solos mostly from memory. This program also begins a three-concert exploration of Vaughn Williams’ most enduring works in celebration of the composer’s 150th birthday, beginning with his profoundly moving Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for string orchestra.
Program:
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15
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Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Tuesday, July 26
Doors: 7:00 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $65.00 ($22.00 – $62.00 Concert Member)*
Guest Artists:
Members of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra
This installment of the Robert Mann Chamber Series begins with Mozart’s jaunty First Flute Quartet, followed by the brief but profound Movement for String Trio by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Dvořák’s complex Terzetto in C, written for two violins and viola, begins with lyrical sweetness and develops gorgeous drama along the way. The autumnal feeling behind Brahms’ lauded Clarinet Quintet ends this program with a stunning sunset of music.
Program:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Movement for String Trio
Antonín Dvořák, Terzetto in C Major, Op. 74
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Johannes Brahms, Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Tuesday, August 2
Doors: 7:00 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $65.00 ($22.00 – $62.00 Concert Member)*
Guest Artists:
Danish String Quartet
“They could be grounded in their tone or mystical. They allowed time to stand still, and they could assume the pose of excitingly aggressive rockers. They did it all,” says The Los Angeles Times of the Danish String Quartet. The Quartet continues the 2022 Robert Mann Chamber Series with an unusual and delightful choice: a collection of folk music, a rare treat to experience with a classical string ensemble. The program begins with Purcell’s pure Chaconne and ends, unforgettably, with Schubert’s Quartet in G Major. “In his last and greatest string quartet Schubert seems to have set out, like Mahler, to contain the world” (Gramophone).
Program:
Purcell, Chacony in G Minor for string quartet (arr. Benjamin Britten)
Folk Music from the British Isles (arr. Danish String Quartet)
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Schubert, String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Tuesday, July 19
Doors: 7:00 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $65.00 ($22.00 – $62.00 Concert Member)*
Guest Artists:
Members of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra
The Festival continues its Robert Mann Chamber Series, named for a beloved educator, composer, and founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet. Tchaikovsky spent some of his happiest days in Florence, and his Souvenir blends Italian romance with folk flavors from his native Russia; Russian themes also appear in his compatriot Borodin’s Sextet, particularly in the second movement (one of only two movements which have survived!). Mikhail Glinka’s massive influence on Russian classical music cannot be overstated; here, his cheerful and optimistic Trio pathétique showcases the rare combination of clarinet, bassoon, and piano.
Program:
Alexander Borodin, String Sextet in D Minor
Mihail Glinka, Trio Pathétique in D Minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Souvenir de Florence, Sextet in D Minor, Op. 70
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by Brianna Suazo | Mar 1, 2022
Sunday, July 17
Doors: 6:00 PM
Concert: 6:30 PM
Chautauqua Auditorium
Tickets: $25.00 – $75.00 ($22.00 – $72.00 Concert Member)*
Conductor:
Peter Oundjian
John Adams
Guest Artist:
Jeremy Denk, piano
The Festival’s focus on today’s music continues as world-renowned conductor and Festival composer-in-residence/co-curator John Adams takes the podium to lead his off-beat and grooving Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? with the extraordinary Jeremy Denk at the piano — listen for a second “detuned honky-tonk piano” to add its voice. Music Director Peter Oundjian conducts the final symphony by Christopher Rouse, which The New York Times called Rouse’s Sixth “a haunting and profound farewell” true to the composer’s character: “all of Mr. Rouse — contemplative elegy, rowdy playfulness, eclectic homage — is in this score.” In her Tumblebird Contrails, composer Gabriella Smith calls to mind the Pacific Ocean and “keening gulls, pounding surf, rush of approaching waves, sizzle of sand, and sea foam in receding tide.”
Program:
Gabriella Smith, Tumblebird Contrails
John Adams, Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?
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Christopher Rouse, Symphony No. 6
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