Carte Blanche Concert III

An Evening with Menahem Pressler
Menahem Pressler, piano, with
Wu Han, piano

SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2009
7:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Tickets: $65/$45 adult; $32/$15 student

Koret Young Performers Concert*
4:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Free Admission

Having recently concluded his fifty-three-year journey as founding pianist of the legendary Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler makes his long-awaited Music@Menlo debut, offering two of the most profound musical statements to mark the dawn of Romanticism: Beethoven’s Opus 110 Piano Sonata, the penultimate of his cycle of thirty-two sonatas, and Schubert’s final work in that genre, the sublime B-flat Major Piano Sonata, completed two months before the composer’s death.

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
Lied ohne Worte in E Major, op. 67, no. 5
Lied ohne Worte in f-sharp minor, op. 67, no. 2
Lied ohne Worte in B-flat Major, op. 62, no. 2
Four-hand selection TBA

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Piano Sonata no. 31 in A-flat Major, op. 110 (1821–1822)

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960 (1828)

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