This program of popular works by three of classical music’s best-known composers begins with an early composition by Beethoven—the Piano and Winds Quintet, whose instrumentation Beethoven took from Mozart’s 1784 quintet (which can be heard on the Festival’s July 27 & 28 concerts)—and concludes with Mendelssohn’s second and final piano trio: the passionate and fiery Piano Trio in C Minor, which Mendelssohn wrote just a couple of weeks after the premiere of his famous Violin Concerto. The program also includes Paul Watkins and Ran Dank playing Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata, whose nickname is a nod to the six-stringed, bowed guitar that was (briefly) popular in the early 19th century and that Schubert originally wrote the work for.
BEETHOVEN Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano and Winds, Op. 16
SCHUBERT Sonata in A Minor for Cello and Piano, D. 821, Arpeggione
MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 66
Approximate length: 1 hour and 45 minutes
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