Summary
Music@Menlo’s inaugural festival in 2003 was designed as a “road map” of chamber music, taking audiences chronologically from the mid-seventeenth century to modern times. Inspired by that landmark season, this program charts the journey in a single concert, beginning with Telemann and closing with the West Coast premiere of Sir Stephen Hough’s Piano Quintet.
Program
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
Concerto in D major for Four Violins, TWV 40:202 (ca. 1720)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Violin Sonata in F major, op. 24, Spring (1800–01)
Robert Schumann (1810–56)
Andante and Variations for Two Pianos, Two Cellos, and Horn, op. 46 (1843)
Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Selections from Forty-Four Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98 (1931)
Stephen Hough (Born 1961)
Piano Quintet, Les Noces Rouges (2024) (West Coast premiere)
Artists
Piano
Piano
Violins
Violins
Violins
Violins
Cello
Cello
Horn
String Quartet
Encounter Lectures
Encounter I: Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, led by Michael Parloff
Concert Programs
Concert Program I: The Glorious Violin
Concert Programs
Concert Program II: Being Mendelssohn
Encounter Lectures
Encountering Beethoven Lecture I, with Gilles Vonsattel
Bundle event
Beethoven Bundle I:
Lecture & Performance
Carte Blanche Concerts
Carte Blanche I: Beethoven Sonatas, Gilles Vonsattel
Concert Programs
Concert Program III: From Bach
Encounter Lectures
Encountering Beethoven Lecture II, with Gilles Vonsattel
Bundle event
Beethoven Bundle II:
Lecture & Performance
Carte Blanche Concerts
Carte Blanche II: Beethoven Sonatas, Gilles Vonsattel
Concert Programs
Concert Program V: Resonance
Concert Programs
Concert Program VI: Returning to Mozart
Encounter Lectures
Encounter II: Artistic Legacy, led by Ara Guzelimian
Encounter Lectures
Encountering Beethoven Lecture III, with Gilles Vonsattel
Bundle event
Beethoven Bundle III:
Lecture & Performance
Carte Blanche Concerts
Carte Blanche III: Beethoven Sonatas, Gilles Vonsattel