Music@Menlo LIVE

Music@Menlo LIVE, the festival’s exclusive recording label, has received rave reviews from critics and customers alike. The label, launched in 2003, has been praised as a “breakthrough” (Billboard) and “probably the most ambitious recording project of any classical music festival in the world” (San Jose Mercury News). Music@Menlo’s recordings are produced by Grammy Award-winning engineer Da-Hong Seetoo using state-of-the-art recording technology.

Music@Menlo LIVE 2022: Haydn Connections

Music@Menlo is delighted to announce the release of the LIVE recordings from the 2022 summer festival—Haydn Connections. Haydn’s work is a tree of musical life, whose roots grew from the rich soil left by Bach into branches extending across centuries. With Haydn as a point of both arrival and departure, we marvel at the wit and depth of his chamber music—and also the surprising connections his art creates with Greek mythology, cellos, folk music, and other revered composers. Learn more.

Works include:

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | Cello Concerto in A major, W: 172
• Béla Bartók | Contrasts for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
• Sergei Rachmaninov | “Now Lettest Thou Thy Servant Depart in Peace” from Vespers, op. 37 for Cello Choir (arr. Atapine)
• Charles-Marie Widor | Fugue sur le nom d’Haydn
• Michael Stephen Brown | Etude−Fantasy on the name of Haydn

Music@Menlo LIVE 2021: Gather

This collection celebrates the joy of coming together around a shared love of live music after an immensely challenging period for the arts. Each of the discs explores pinnacles of chamber music, including both masterworks and new discoveries.Learn more and order online.

Works include:

• Patrick Castillo | Gather
• György Ligeti | Sonata for Solo Cello
• Johannes Brahms | Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34
• Antonín Dvořák | String Sextet in A Major, op. 48, B. 80
• Felix Mendelssohn | String Quintet no. 2 in B-flat Major, op. 87