Violinist Jennifer Frautschi and pianist Katia Skanavi play Mozart’s virtuosic B-flat Sonata for Violin and Piano—which the composer wrote for a performance he gave with a famous Italian violinist in Vienna—and both musicians feature again in Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G Minor, a work that’s especially known for its spirited final movement. To open the program, the Verona Quartet—called “outstanding” by The New York Times—premieres a Festival-commissioned quartet by Alex Paxton, who’s been hailed as “a magician of sound” by the Financial Times and whose major awards include the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize. 

ALEX PAXTON New Work for String Quartet (Festival Commission, World Premiere) 

MOZART Sonata in B-flat Major for Violin and Piano, K. 454 

BRAHMS Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25 

Approximate length: 1 hour and 45 minutes 

Generously sponsored by Dr. Roger M. and Leslie Klein Simon in memory of Kurt Klein

Performed by

Ida Kavafian

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