Concert Program III

VIENNA

The summer’s third Concert Program honors the great musical tradition of Vienna, the seat of Western music from the early eighteenth century to the dawn of the twentieth. Vienna was the crucible of the Classical and Romantic periods, fostering the innovations of Joseph Haydn—the father of the Classical style—and forward-looking statements like the Serioso Quartet of Ludwig van Beethoven, Haydn’s prize pupil. Beethoven’s vision for a new direction in music would be realized by the Romantic generation in such masterpieces as Johannes Brahms’s Opus 36 Sextet. Vienna remained the epicenter of the musical world through the early twentieth century, with the iconoclastic Arnold Schoenberg at the helm of the revolutionary Second Viennese School. The program features Schoenberg’s First Chamber Symphony, arranged for chamber ensemble by Second Viennese acolyte Anton Webern.

PROGRAM

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Keyboard Concertino in F Major, Hob. XVIII: F2 (ca. 1767)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
String Quartet in f minor, op. 95, Serioso (1810–1811)

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
Chamber Symphony no. 1, op. 9 (1922; arr. Webern, 1922–1923)

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Sextet no. 2 in G Major, op. 36 (1864)

Saturday, July 31

8:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Tickets: $52/$38 adult; $25/$10 student

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

Sunday, August 1

6:00 p.m., Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Tickets: $72 adult; $35 student

Monday, August 2

8:00 p.m., Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Tickets: $72 adult; $35 student

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

ARTISTS

Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Todd Palmer, clarinet
Gilbert Kalish, piano
Wu Han, piano
Jorja Fleezanis, violin
Erin Keefe, violin
Lily Francis, violin/viola
David Finckel, cello
Ralph Kirshbaum, cello
Miró Quartet
   Daniel Ching, violin
   Sandy Yamamoto, violin
   John Largess, viola
   Joshua Gindele, cello

*Learn more about Prelude Performances »

Image: Gustav Klimt (1862–1918). Music I, 1895. Oil and goldbronze on canvas, 27.5 × 35.5 cm. Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resource, NY; Neue Pinakothek, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, Germany