Artist unknown. Popular Gypsy dance, Budapest, Hungary, ca. 1850, engraving. Zenetorteneti Muzeum (Music History Museum), Budapest, Hungary. © A. Dagli Orti/De Agostini Picture Library/Bridgeman Images
Artist unknown. Popular Gypsy dance, Budapest, Hungary, ca. 1850, engraving. Zenetorteneti Muzeum (Music History Museum), Budapest, Hungary. © A. Dagli Orti/De Agostini Picture Library/Bridgeman Images
Music@Menlo’s 2020 season concludes with an irresistible program of works influenced by folk traditions. Haydn’s fascination with gypsy music, audible in the Rondo all’Ongarese of his Piano Trio in G Major, was shared a century later by Brahms, who debuted in Vienna with a “Gypsy Rondo” of his own. The program also features Erwin Schulhoff’s Duo for Violin and Cello and the Spanish violinist, composer, and consummate entertainer Pablo de Sarasate’s ravishing Zigeunerweisen.