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Performed by a collection of the world’s great chamber musicians, Concert Programs are the core of the festival’s theme, providing inspired performances in intimate settings.
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Performed by a collection of the world’s great chamber musicians, Concert Programs are the core of the festival’s theme, providing inspired performances in intimate settings.
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Read morebuy tickets: Jul 15Concert Program I: The Path to Bach
The 2017 festival journey begins in the generation before J. S. Bach: through the ingenuity of such composer-virtuosi as Carlo Farina, Marco Uccellini, and Pietro Antonio Locatelli, the violin evolved from the modest fiddle ...
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Read morebuy tickets: Jul 16buy tickets: Jul 18Concert Program II: The Classical Style
As Haydn and Mozart crystallized the Classical tradition that Beethoven would inherit and transform, the performers of their day likewise developed ever more sophisticated instrumental techniques. Such musicians as the violinists Giovanni Battista Viotti, ...
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Read morebuy tickets: Jul 20buy tickets: Jul 22Concert Program III: German Virtuosity
Concert Program III continues the festival’s journey from the Classical period into the nineteenth century. The program offers Beethoven’s final violin sonata as its point of departure into the new era—following a nod to ...
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Read morebuy tickets: Jul 23buy tickets: Jul 24Concert Program IV: In Joachim’s Orbit
The sheer brilliance of Mendelssohn’s musical achievements would inspire an emerging generation of Romantics. Robert Schumann considered him “the first musician of the day…He plays with everything…with such ease, delicacy, and art, with such ...
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Read morebuy tickets: Jul 28buy tickets: Jul 29Concert Program V: French Luminaries
As violinists from the Baroque period throughout the nineteenth century nurtured Germany’s violin tradition, generations of French virtuosi likewise cultivated a distinct national style. Concert Program V begins with the Sonata in e minor ...
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Read morebuy tickets: Aug 2Concert Program VI: The Age of Expression
The generation of virtuosi that emerged in the early twentieth century, headed by the preternaturally gifted Fritz Kreisler, charted new frontiers in the violin’s expressive potential. As the art of the violin was reimagined, ...
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Read morebuy tickets: Aug 5Concert Program VII: National Flavors
Music@Menlo’s 2017 festival season finale offers a colorful survey of violin playing across the Western world. The vitality of modern Bohemia is heard in Martinů’s ingenious duo, while the visceral influence of the great ...