2018-2019

A Concert of
Extravagant and Virtuosic Music
from 17th-century Germany

The seventeenth century in Germany was a time of incredible upheaval: wars of religion and politics swept the land, bringing famine and plague in their wake and an ongoing state of crisis. The chamber music of the time reflected this fraught, unpredictable cultural climate. Inspired by the experimental works of Italian composers, the virtuosos working in Germany explored ways to give composers free rein to do whatever their imagination suggested, delighting and astonishing the listener.

This concert features instruments from the Baroque period we don’t often see in performance. In addition to violins and harpsichord, there will be a sackbut – the precursor of the trombone, a dulcian – an early bassoon, and theorbo/guitar.

7:00 p.m. Doors open for wine and conversation
Program
Haydn: Trio in C Major, Hob. XV:27
Brahms: Trio in B Major, Op. 8​

2:15 p.m. Pre-concert lecture
Program
Haydn: Trio in E-flat Major, Hob. XV:29
Mendelssohn: Trio in C Minor, Op. 66
Arensky: Trio in D Minor, Op. 32

6:45 p.m. Doors open for wine and hors d’oeuvres
Program
Haydn: Quartet in B Minor, Op. 33, No. 1
Prokofiev: Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92

7:00 p.m. Doors open for wine and conversation
Program
Haydn: Quartet in B Minor, Op. 33, No. 1
Prokofiev: Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92

2:15 p.m. Pre-concert lecture by Jason Heilman
Program
Shaw: Valencia
Pärt: Fratres
Glass: Quartet No. 5
Villa-Lobos: Quartet No. 17
Ljova: Vjola Suite

6:45 p.m. Doors open for wine and hors d’oeuvres
Program
Purcell: Dido’s Lament
Gesualdo: Madrigals
Shostakovich: Elegy, Op. 36a
Carter: Elegy
Mendelssohn: Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 87

​7:00 p.m. Doors open for wine and conversation
​Program
Mozart: Quintet in C Minor, K. 406
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, No. 3

2:15 p.m. Pre-concert lecture by Noam Faingold, Composer​
Program
Haydn: Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2
Brahms: Quintet in F Major, Op. 88
Mendelssohn: Quintet in B-flat major, Op. 87

7:00 p.m. Doors open for wine and conversation
Program
Handel: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Desenclos: Quartet for Saxophones
Dundee: Shifting Gears
Bach: Italian Concerto
Love: In Memoriam
Kapustin: Selections from 24 Preludes
in Jazz Style

2:15 p.m. Pre-concert lecture
Program
Escaich: Tango Virtuoso
Mellits: Ex Machina
Nagao: Chercher and Aspirer from
Quartet for Saxophones
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Ticheli: Out of the Blue
Piazzolla: Adios Nonino

Moonshine Ballads and Various Charms
with Patricia O’Callighan
A special cabaret program that evokes open skies, dark tales, and lazy afternoons. From Arlo Guthrie to Aaron Copland, Charles Ives to Randy Newman, these are songs where nostalgia and hardship walk comfortably hand in hand. A southern waltz by Gillian Welch next to a northern ballad by Ron Sexsmith leaves one feeling the vast and beating heart of Americana and beyond.

7:00 p.m. Doors open for wine and conversation
Mozart: Divertimento in B-flat major, K. 254 (Allegro assai)
Silvestrov: Fugitive Visions of Mozart (Movements I, III, & VI)
Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1
David Braid: el castillo interior
Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
Lalo: Trio No. 3 in A minor, Op. 26

2:15 p.m. Pre-concert lecture by Jason Heilman
Program
Clarke: Trio in E-flat Major
Wijeratne: Love Triangle*
Ravel: Trio in A Minor​​

*Composed for the Gryphon Trio in 2013

Moonshine Ballads and Various Charms
Gryphon Trio with Patricia O’Callighan

A special cabaret program that evokes open skies, dark tales, and lazy afternoons. From Arlo Guthrie to Aaron Copland, Charles Ives to Randy Newman, these are songs where nostalgia and hardship walk comfortably hand in hand. A southern waltz by Gillian Welch next to a northern ballad by Ron Sexsmith leaves one feeling the vast and beating heart of Americana and beyond.

​6:45 p.m. Doors open for wine and hors d’oeuvres
​Ljova: Love Potion Expired
Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile
Eryilmaz: Dances of the Yogurt Maker
Brubeck: Blue Rondo à la Turk
Gabriela Lena Frank: Coqueteos from Leyendas
Fujiwara: Fiddle Suite Montana

7:00 p.m. Doors open for wine and conversation
​Program
Dvorak: Quartet in G Major, Op. 106
Eryilmaz: Dances of the Yogurt Maker

2:15 p.m. Pre-concert lecture
Program
Rautavaara: Quartet No. 1, Quartettino
Shostakovich: Quartet in F Minor, No. 11, Op. 122
Nytch: Seize the Sun: Fantasy on Icarus
Frank: Coqueteos from Leyendas
Fujiwara: Fiddle Suite Montana