BEETHOVEN & MENDELSSOHN

July 26 | 6:00 pm - 7:40 pm

This powerhouse program begins with an intimate violin-and-piano performance of music from Stravinsky’s enduring ballet Pulcinella, moves to a beloved early composition by Beethoven—the Piano and Winds Quintet, whose instrumentation Beethoven took from Mozart’s 1784 quintet—and culminates in Mendelssohn’s genre-defining Octet, a work of staggering genius and beauty that the composer wrote when he was only 16 years old.

STRAVINSKY Suite italienne from Pulcinella (1932)

BEETHOVEN Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano and Winds, Op. 16 (1796)

MENDELSSOHN Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 (1825)

Approximate length: 1 hour and 40 minutes

The Sunday, July 26, concert is generously sponsored in honor of David Frank and Kazukuni Sugiyama’s 50th anniversary by Sarah and Doug Brown.