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2011-2012 Concert Season

 

16 October 2011
The Smithsonian Chamber Players

Mitzi Meyerson & Kenneth Slowik, harpsichords

Music of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, Jacques Duphly, and Johann Sebastian Bach
 
 
29 & 30 October 2011
The Axelrod Quartet

Marc Destrubé & Marilyn McDonald, violins
James Dunham, viola; Kenneth Slowik, violoncello
 
Joseph Haydn: Quartet in C Major, Op. 74, No. 1
Robert Schumann: Quartet in A Major, Op. 41, No. 1 
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127
 
 
20 November 2011
The Smithsonian Chamber Players
Vera Beths & Marilyn McDonald, violins
Douglas McNabney, viola
Kenneth Slowik, violoncello
Lambert Orkis, fortepiano
 

Robert Schumann: Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 47 
Robert Schumann: Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44
 
 
8 January 2012
Kenneth Slowik, harpsichord

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Goldberg Variations
 
 
14 & 15 January 2012
The Axelrod Quartet

Marc Destrubé & Marilyn McDonald, violins
James Dunham, viola; Kenneth Slowik, violoncello
     with the Old City String Quartet: Joel Link & Bryan Lee, violins
     Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola, Camden Shaw, violoncello
 

Joseph Haydn: Quartet in F Major, Op. 74, No. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 5
Felix Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20
 

5 February 2012
The Smithsonian Chamber Players
Marc Destrubé, violin
Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba
Kenneth Slowik, harpsichord 
 
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pièces de clavecin en concerts
 

 

4 March 2012
The Smithsonian Chamber Players

Ian Swensen, violin
Loretta O'Sullivan, violoncello
Kenneth Slowik, fortepiano
 
Sonatas and Trios of Haydn & Mozart
 
 
25 February 2012
Seminar: J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion
 
Scholar and performer Kenneth Slowik examines what many consider to be Bach’s greatest masterpiece. Seminar topics include: the background of German Passion settings before Bach; Bach and the chorale tradition; Bach as an interpreter of the Gospel of Matthew; the history of Bach's own performances of the work, and: its revival in 1829 by Mendelssohn.
 
 

18 March 2012
William Sharp, baritone
Kenneth Slowik, fortepiano       
Music of Robert Schumann:
    Eichendorff Liederkreis, Op. 39   
    Dichterliebe, Op. 48     
 
 
22 April 2012
The Smithsonian Chamber Players
Mark Fewer, violin
Anca Nicolau, violin & viola
Myron Lutzke, violoncello
Kenneth Slowik, harpsichord, violoncello, & harmonium

Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli: Sonatas of 1660 
Antonin Dvorak: Bagatelles, Op. 47
Anton Stepanovich Arensky: Quartet in A Minor, Op. 35
 
 
5 & 6 May 2012
The Axelrod Quartet
Marc Destrubé & Marilyn McDonald, violins
James Dunham, viola; Kenneth Slowik, violoncello
 
Joseph Haydn: Quartet in G Minor, Op. 74, No. 3
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5
Johannes Brahms: Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1
   

 

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