
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
BEETHOVEN TO BEACH
November 17, 2022 | 7:30 PM
Despite being restricted in her musical career by her husband and parents, Amy Beach became the first wholly successful American woman composer and concert pianist. A grand, sweeping work in the Romantic style, her quintet easily stands beside the great works in the genre by Schumann, Brahms, and Dvořák. As preludes to the Beach, fanciful works by Beethoven and Schumann lead to the intense sonic and rhythmic world of Erwin Schulhoff, whose bracing duo for violin and cello rivals those by his contemporaries Ravel and Kodály.
PROGRAM
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) | Variations in G Major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 121a, “Kakadu” (1803, Rev. 1816) Vonsattel, Fullana, Finckel |
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) | Märchenbilder For Viola and Piano, Op. 113 (1851) Nicht schnell Lebhaft Rasch Langsam, mit melancholischem Ausdruck Lipman, Vonsattel |
Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) | Duo for Violin and Cello (1925) Moderato Zingaresca: Allegro giocoso Andantino Moderato Kavafian, Finckel |
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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) | Quintet in F-Sharp Minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 67 (1907) Adagio—Allegro moderato Adagio espressivo Allegro agitato Vonsattel, Kavafian, Fullana, Lipman, Finckel |
ARTISTS
Gilles Vonsattel | piano |
Francisco Fullana | violin |
Ida Kavafian | violin |
Matthew Lipman | viola |
David Finckel | cello |