Concert Program II

Classical Bookends:
Haydn and Schubert

Audiences at Music@Menlo’s inaugural season viewed the Classical period through the lens of the era’s undisputed holy trinity: Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. This season, Music@Menlo frames Classicism with the period’s two bookend composers. The first half of the program comprises two mature works by Joseph Haydn, the virtual inventor of the Classical style. Haydn’s Piano Trio in e minor and “Sunrise” Quartet (the latter work composed six years after Mozart’s untimely death) demonstrate the composer’s fully crystallized innovations of musical form and expression. The program concludes with Franz Schubert’s Octet for winds and strings, a late masterpiece rooted in Viennese Classicism, yet prophetic of the Romantic style.

Concert Program II:
Classical Bookends: Haydn and Schubert

Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio in e minor, Hob. XV: 12 (1789)
String Quartet, op. 76, no. 4, “Sunrise” (1797)

Franz Schubert
Octet in F Major, D. 803 (1824)

Performers

Anthony McGill clarinet
Dennis Godburn bassoon
William VerMeulen French horn

Escher String Quartet
  Adam Barnett-Hart violin
  Wu Jie violin
  Pierre Lapointe viola
  Andrew Janss cello

Jorja Fleezanis violin
Arnaud Sussmann violin
Hsin-Yun Huang viola
Andrés Díaz cello
Laurence Lesser cello
DaXun Zhang bass
Derek Han piano

Wednesday, July 23

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

Concert Program II: Classical Bookends: Haydn and Schubert
8:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Tickets: $50/$32 adult; $25/$10 student

Thursday, July 24

Prelude Performance*
6:00 p.m., Martin Family Hall, Menlo School
Free admission

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

Friday, July 25

Prelude Performance*
6:00 p.m., Martin Family Hall, Menlo School
Free admission

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

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

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