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Osvoldo Golijov: Tenebrae

Dmitri Shostakovich: Quartet No. 7

Franz Schubert: Quartet in G Major, D887

Joseph Haydn: Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, no.5

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 26

Franz Schubert: Quartet in D Minor, D810, Death and the Maiden

Consort music of Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) and Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Suites and Sonatas of J. S. Bach

Piano Trios of Mozart, Haydn, & Beethoven

Florence Price: String Quartet in G Major

Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74, the Harp

Franz Schubert: Quartet in A Minor, D804, Rosamunde

Piano Trios of Mozart and Beethoven

 J. S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin and obbligato Harpsichord: in C minor, BWV 1017; in A major, BWV 1015

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pièces de clavecin en concerts: in C minor; in B-flat major

Selections from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, and Bach fugue arrangements by Mozart

Die schöne Müllerin (The Beautiful Maid of the Mill), D. 795

Twenty songs by Franz Schubert on texts by Wilhelm Müller

Haydn: Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2, “Fifths”

Britten: Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 36

Beethoven: Quartet in F Major, Op. 135

   Mozart: Quartet in G Major, K387

   Bartók: Quartet No. 1, Op. 7 

   Beethoven: Quartet in F Major

                    Op. 59, No. 1

Music of Marin Marais, from Book I (1689) and Book IV (1717) of his Pièces de viole, for one to three bass viols, theorbo, and harpsichord.

• Haydn: Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2
• Shostakovich: Quartet No. 4 in D Major
• Beethoven: Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1

The Axelrod Quartet's Marc Destrubé and Kenneth Slowik present the program that was cancelled during the January 2019 government shutdown: J. S. Bach's Partita in G Major, BWV 829 and Sonata in C Minor, BWV 1017; Joseph Haydn's Sonata in E Minor, Hob. XVI: 34; and the Mozart Sonata in D Major, K306/300l.

Kenneth Slowik begins the second Schubertiade of the SCMS 2019-20 season with the intimate Moments Musicaux, D780, then plays the stormy Sonata in G Minor, D408 with violinist Mark Fewer. After the interval, three of the SCMS Fellows join the veteran players for the bubbly Trout Quintet. D667.

Following the 1782 publication of C. H. Müller's Drey Sonaten füre Clavier als Doppelstücke fur zwey Personen mit vier Handen von C. H. Müller, the fortepiano 4-hand genre quickly became popular. It is among the simplest kind of chamber music, requiring only two players who together give their instrument a much fuller presence than either one can produce alone. (When a polished performance was not the ultimate goal, the close physical proximity of the players could offer its own rewards!)
Tonight's program begins with three Mozart sonatas (K318/123a in G major, K497 in F major, and K521 in C major), for which a five-octave instrument will be used. After the interval, Schubert’s Grand Duo, D812, and Four Polonaises, D599, played on a six-and-one-half-octave piano, will round off the gemütlich evening.

The Axelrod Quartet continues its exploration of Joseph Haydn's Op. 50 with the D Major sixth member of the set, called "the Frog" because of the first violin's bariolage (rapid alternation between strings) that characterizes the last movement. The second of Benjamin Britten's three quartets, which ends with a large-scale Chacony in homage to Henry Purcell, concludes the first half of the program. The first of Beethoven's three ground-breaking Razumovsky (Op. 59) quartets brings the concert to an ebullient close.

Music of Franz Schubert:

Sonata in A Minor, D385; Auf dem Strom, D943; Sonata in A Major, D574; Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965

J. S. Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080

Ludwig van Beethoven: Three Marches, Op. 45

Franz Schubert: Fantasie in F Minor, D 940

Franz Schubert: Rondo in A Major, D. 951

Ludwig can Beethoven: Große Fuge, Op. 134

J. S. Bach: Suite in F Major, BWV 809

J. S. Bach: Sonata in F Minor, BWV 1018

Joseph Haydn: Sonata in G Major, Hob. XVI:40

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata in B-flat Major, K 454

Joseph Haydn: Quartet in F Major, Op. 77, No. 2

Béla Bartók: Quartet No. 2, Op. 17

Felix Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20

Consort Music of Richard Mico and William Lawes

Reinbert de Leeuw: Im wunderschönen Monat Mai:

Three times seven Lieder after Schumann and Schubert

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

     Quartet in B Minor, Op. 33, No. 1(1781)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

     Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6 (1801)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

     Quintet in G Major, Op. 111 (1890)

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

     Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3

         the Bird (1781)

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

     Quartet No. 1, Op. 7 (1908-9)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

     Quintet in A Major, Op. 18 (1832)

Reinbert de Leeuw (b. 1938),

     after Franz Schubert & Robert Schumann

Im wunderschönen Monat Mai:

     Dreimal sieben Lieder

       nach Schumann und Schubert (2004)

John Jenkins (1592-1678)

Consort Music for Viols

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

     Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2,

         the Joke (1781)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

     Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1 (1873)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

     Quintet in C Major, K515 (1787)

Chamber Music of Johannes Brahms
Violin Sonata in G Major, Op. 78
Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115

Joseph Haydn: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 76, No. 6

Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2

Louis Spohr: Double Quartet in G Minor, Op. 136

Joseph Haydn: Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5
Anton Webern: Langsamer Satz
Johannes Brahms: Quartet in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2

Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge ("The Art of Fugue"), BWV 1080

Beethoven: "Spring" Sonata, Trio Op. 9, No. 1, and Septet, Op. 20

 Piano Trios of Joseph Haydn

Quintets of Dvorak and Brahms

Consort Music of John Dowland and William Lawes

Works of J.S. and CPE Bach 

Beethoven: Quintet in C Major, Op. 29
Beethoven: Quintet in C Minor, Op. 104

Haydn: Quartet in C Major, Op. 76, No. 3, (the “Emperor”)
Mozart: Quartet in D Minor, K421/417b
Zemlinsky: Quartet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 4

Schubert: Trio in B-flat Major, D 898
Schubert: Quintet in A Major, D. 667 (the “Trout”)

J.S. Bach: Sonatas in E Major, BWV 1016; and A Major, BWV 1015

CPE Bach: CPE Bachs Empfindungen, Wq 80

Joseph Haydn: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 71, No. 3

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quartet in G Major, K387

Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3

Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring (original version)

Dmitri Shostakovich, arr. Rudolf Barshai: Chamber Symphony, Op. 73a

Joseph Haydn: Quartet in D Major, Op. 71, No. 2

Felix Mendelssohn: Quartet in A Minor, Op. 13, Ist es wahr?

Felix Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20

Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for violin and harpsichord

Masterworks VII

The Smithsonian Chamber Players:
Mark Fewer, violin; Anca Nicolau, violin & viola; Myron Lutzke, violoncello; Kenneth Slowik, violoncello, harpsichord, harmonium

Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli: Sonatas of 1660

Anton Stepanovic Arensky: Quartet in A Minor, Op. 35

Antonín Dvorak: Bagatelles, Op. 47

Masterworks V

The Smithsonian Chamber Players:
Ian Swensen, violin; Loretta O’Sullivan, violoncello; Kenneth Slowik, fortepiano

Sonatas and trios of Haydn, Mozart, & Beethoven

The Axelrod Quartet II

Marc Destrubé & Marilyn McDonald, violins; James Dunham, viola; Kenneth Slowik, violoncello,

with The Old City String Quartet

Joseph Haydn: Quartet in F Major, Op. 74, No. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in D Major, Op.18, No. 3
Felix Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20

Masterworks II

The Smithsonian Chamber Players: 
Lambert Orkis, fortepiano; Vera Beths and Marilyn McDonald, violins; Douglas McNabney, viola; Kenneth Slowik, violoncello

Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47; Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44

Cherubini: Quintet No. 1 in E Minor
Boccherini: Quintet in C Major, La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid, g324
Boccherini: Quintet in D Major, Fandango, g341

Haydn: Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, No. 5
Mozart: Quartet in D Major, k499, the Hoffmeister
Smetana: Quartet in E Minor, From My Life

Brahms: Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34

Mozart: Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn & bassoon in E flat major, k452
Beethoven: Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn & bassoon in E flat major, Op. 16

Bach Suites I: Suite in G Major, BWV 1007; Suite in E-flat Major, BWV 1010; Suite in C Minor, BVW 1011

Haydn: Quartet in A Major, Op. 20, No. 6
Beethoven: Quartetto Serioso in F Minor, Op. 95
Schubert: Quartet in D Minor, D810, Death and the Maiden