2011–2012 Winter Series

Music@Menlo Winter Series Music@Menlo’s Winter Series offers listeners the opportunity to experience the festival’s signature chamber music programming throughout the year, deepening the festival’s presence as one of the Bay Area’s leading cultural institutions. Following the stunning success of the inaugural Winter Series season, the 2011–2012 season will comprise three Sunday afternoon performances at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, featuring a variety of repertoire performed by many of the festival’s favorite artists.

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Winds of France

February 12, 2012

4:00 p.m., The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
Tickets: $50/$45 adult; $25/$20 student
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, France became the compositional epicenter of chamber music written for wind instruments. The timbrally colorful combination of the instruments proved irresistible for many of France’s most compelling musical voices. Join these virtuosic wind players from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as they explore this ravishing, and rarely heard, repertoire.

Listen to a sound clip of the ensemble performing Francis Poulenc's Sextet for Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn.»

Maurice Emmanuel (1862–1938)
Sonata for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano, op. 11 (1907)

Yan Maresz (b. 1966)
Circumambulation for Flute (1993, rev. 1996)

Jean Françaix (1912–1997)
Wind Quintet (1948)

Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)
Trois pièces brèves for Wind Quintet (1930)

Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Sextet for Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn (1932–1939)

Artists Alessio Bax, piano; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Stephen Taylor, oboe; David Shifrin, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; William Purvis, horn

Jupiter String Quartet

April 29, 2012

4:00 p.m., The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
Tickets: $50/$45 adult; $25/$20 student
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The venerated English conductor Jeffrey Tate once said, “The most perfect expression of human behavior is the string quartet.” The Jupiter String Quartet, one of America’s most exciting young chamber ensembles, returns to Music@Menlo for this special afternoon of masterworks from the string quartet repertoire. The venerated English conductor Jeffrey Tate once said, “The most
perfect expression of human behavior is the string quartet.” The Jupiter
String Quartet, one of America’s most exciting young chamber
ensembles, returns to Music@Menlo for this special afternoon of
masterworks from the string quartet repertoire. In addition to Haydn’s
delightful F Major String Quartet, op. 77, no. 2, and Prokofiev’s Second String Quartet, the program features the colossal and expressive String Quartet in G Major, D. 887, by Franz Schubert—the final quartet that he wrote.

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Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
F Major String Quartet, op. 77, no. 2

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
String Quartet no. 2 in F Major, op. 92 (1941)

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
String Quartet in G Major, D. 887 (1826)

Artists
Jupiter String Quartet: Nelson Lee, Megan Freivogel, violins; Liz Freivogel, viola; Daniel McDonough, cello