by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 6:45 PM
Guest Artists:
St. Lawrence String Quartet
The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a performance by the St. Lawrence String Quartet, an ensemble known for “not only virtuosity, intelligence, and imagination but also extraordinary passion” (New York Times). The Quartet — once guided and coached by Mann himself — performs works by Haydn and Debussy, as well as John Adams’ first String Quartet. In the words of The Washington Post, “If good relationships are built on trust, the bond between the St. Lawrence String Quartet and composer John Adams is a marriage made in chamber music heaven.”
Program:
Franz Joseph Haydn, Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4
John Adams, String Quartet No. 1, First Quartet (2008)
Claude Debussy, String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
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by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 5:45 PM
Conductor:
Ludovic Morlot
Guest Artist:
Conrad Tao, piano
In this stunning all-Mozart program, the “energetic and engaging” Ludovic Morlot (Daily Telegraph) conducts the composer’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, an urgent and intensely expressive masterpiece which explores the anguish and triumph of the human spirit. Celebrated pianist Conrad Tao, “an explosive force” with “a hefty dash of charm” (Baltimore Sun), joins the Festival to perform Mozart’s optimistic Piano Concerto No. 23.
Program:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Idomeneo Ballet Music, K. 367 (Movements 1 and 2)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
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by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 5:45 PM
Conductor:
Ludovic Morlot
Guest Artist:
Olga Kern, piano
“Whatever it is — call it star quality —” claims the Washington Post, “music likes Kern the way the camera liked Garbo.” Olga Kern puts that electrifying technique to work in not one but two dynamic pieces: the most popular of Haydn’s concertos for keyboard and Shostakovich’s witty First Piano Concerto. (Listen for Shostakovich’s extraordinary moments for solo trumpet as well.) Former Seattle Symphony music director Ludovic Morlot conducts this program, which also includes three movements from Dvořák’s Legends plus Prokofiev’s playful and charming Classical Symphony, composed on an idyllic farm as Prokofiev took refuge from the turbulence of the Russian Revolution.
Program:
Antonín Dvořák, Legends, Op. 59 (Movements 6, 7 and 9)
Sergei Prokofiev, Symphony No. 1, Op. 25, “Classical”
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Franz Joseph Haydn, Piano Concerto in D Major, Hob. XVIII:11
Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 35
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by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 6:45 PM
Conductor:
Ludovic Morlot
Guest Artist:
Olga Kern, piano
“Whatever it is — call it star quality —” claims the Washington Post, “music likes Kern the way the camera liked Garbo.” Olga Kern puts that electrifying technique to work in not one but two dynamic pieces: the most popular of Haydn’s concertos for keyboard and Shostakovich’s witty First Piano Concerto. (Listen for Shostakovich’s extraordinary moments for solo trumpet as well.) Former Seattle Symphony music director Ludovic Morlot conducts this program, which also includes three movements from Dvořák’s Legends plus Prokofiev’s playful and charming Classical Symphony, composed on an idyllic farm as Prokofiev took refuge from the turbulence of the Russian Revolution.
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Program:
Antonín Dvořák, Legends, Op. 59 (Movements 6, 7 and 9)
Sergei Prokofiev, Symphony No. 1, Op. 25, “Classical”
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Franz Joseph Haydn, Piano Concerto in D Major, Hob. XVIII:11
Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 35
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by Brianna Suazo | Jun 29, 2021
Door Time: 6:45 PM
Guest Artists:
Juilliard String Quartet
The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a performance by the Juilliard String Quartet, of which Mann was the founding first violinist, and which The Boston Globe has called “the most important American quartet in history.” The ensemble performs two major works by French composers: Ravel’s only string quartet, a lively masterpiece and one of the composer’s first successes, as well as Dutilleux’s “Ainsi la Nuit,” a modern classic commissioned for the Juilliard Quartet. The program concludes with Dvořák’s popular “American” Quartet, influenced by folk tunes, spirituals, and even bird songs that Dvořák encountered in New York City and in the Czech community of Spillville, Iowa.
Program:
Maurice Ravel, String Quartet in F Major
Henri Dutilleux, “Ainsi la Nuit” (Thus the Night) (1976)
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Antonín Dvořák, String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96, “American”
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