Concert Program IV:

Mendelssohn Perspectives

“Mendelssohn Perspectives” illuminates the music of Mendelssohn’s predecessors and heirs, set around the composer’s signature Lieder ohne Worte. Beethoven’s dramatic Kreutzer Sonata was a recital specialty of Mendelssohn the chamber musician. Brahms’s Second Piano Quartet represents the latter half of the Romantic journey begun by Beethoven and propelled by Mendelssohn. The thrilling Piano Trio of the renowned American composer Pierre Jalbert gives voice in our own time to the Mendelssohnian ideal of expressive pathos combined with impeccable design.

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Violin Sonata in A Major, op. 47 (Kreutzer) (1802–1803)

Pierre Jalbert (b. 1967)
Piano Trio (1998)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
Lied ohne Worte in g minor, op. 19, no. 6, Venezianisches Gondellied (Venetian Boat Song)
Lied ohne Worte in a minor, op. 85, no. 2
Lied ohne Worte in C Major, op. 67, no. 4

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Piano Quartet no. 2 in A Major, op. 26 (1861)
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MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2009

Concert Program IV
8:00 p.m., Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Tickets: $70 adult; $35 student

Prelude Performance*
6:00 p.m., Martin Family Hall
Free Admission

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2009

Concert Program IV (repeated)
8:00 p.m., Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Tickets: $70 adult; $35 student

Prelude Performance*
6:00 p.m., Martin Family Hall
Free Admission

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2009

Concert Program IV (repeated)
8:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Tickets: $50/$35 adult; $25/$10 student

Prelude Performance*
6:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Free Admission

Artists

Gilbert Kalish piano
Wu Han piano
Yehonatan Berick violin
Arnaud Sussmann violin
Paul Neubauer viola
David Finckel cello

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