Concert Program V:

Promise Fulfilled

In 1832, Felix Mendelssohn modestly uttered to his sister Fanny: “I should like to compose a couple of good trios.” The 2009 festival season comes to a riveting cadence with Mendelssohn’s two majestic piano trios, works that represent the Romantic master at the height of his powers. These touchstones of the composer’s chamber music oeuvre have endured as perennial favorites among music lovers since their acclaimed premieres late in Mendelssohn’s life. Robert Schumann counted Mendelssohn’s Opus 49 among the era’s meistertrios, alongside Beethoven’s Archduke and Ghost trios and the piano trios of Franz Schubert, whose A Major Violin Sonata begins the program.

Program

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Violin Sonata in A Major, op. 162, D. 574 (1817)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
Piano Trio in d minor, op. 49 (1839)
Piano Trio in c minor, op. 66 (1845)

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2009

Concert Program V
8:00 p.m., Menlo Park Presbyterian Church
Tickets: $50/$40 adult; $25/$10 student

Prelude Performance*
5:00 p.m., Martin Family Hall, Menlo School
Free Admission

Koret Young Performers Concert*
1:00 p.m., Martin Family Hall, Menlo School
Free Admission

Artists

Menahem Pressler piano
Eugene Drucker violin
David Finckel cello

*Learn more about Prelude Performances and Koret Young Performers Concerts. »

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