 Sunday November 18, 2018 at 7:30 pm Jon Nakamatsu piano Amenda Quartet David Brickman and Patricia Sunwoo violins Melissa Matson viola Mimi Hwang cello Ernö Dohnanyi: Serenade in C major for String Trio, Op. 10 Mozart: Piano Quartet in E-flat major, K. 493 Ernö Dohnanyi: Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1 NOTE: This concert will be the FINAL concert of the First Muse Chamber Music series. We're absolutely thrilled that Jon Nakamatsu has made time during his upcoming RPO visit to join his good friends in the Amenda Quartet for not one, but TWO chamber music works! Before Jon takes the stage, three-quarters of the Amenda Quartet will open the program with Dohnanyi's Serenade for String Trio, Op. 10. Hungarian composer Ernö Dohnanyi may
not be as well known as his contemporaries Bartók and Kodály, but this
five-movement delicacy may be the most popular of his compositions.
Audiences and performers alike are taken in by these charming and
playful character pieces, incuding a march, a romance (with an
unbeatably beautiful viola melody!), and a lively and fiendish scherzo. In the mid 1780s Mozart
was commissioned to write three piano quartets at the behest of
publisher Hoffmeister. Once the first one was completed (K. 478 in G
minor) its complexity was considered to be too challenging for amateur
musicians to perform. Although Hoffmeister cancelled the rest of the
commission, Mozart did write a second work for the combination - we will
be performing this work, the Piano Quartet in E-flat major, K. 493. The Allegro first
movement exudes warmth and congeniality in its plethera of melodic
elements, showcasing both virtuosic and collaborative piano writing.
Following the expressive dialogues of the Larghetto, the Allegretto brings the work to a sparkling and rollicking conclusion. Completing the evening's "Mozart sandwich" will be Dohnanyi's Piano Quintet in c minor, Op. 1. In his youth Dohnanyi was a prodigious pianist - he wrote this work in 1895
before he turned twenty, while a student at the Liszt Academy of Music
in Budapest. Much of its ethos reflects the influence of German Romantic
era composers such as Brahms and Schumann. It was very well received at
the time by the public, and it is reported that Brahms' response to
hearing the work was "nobody could write it better." We will end the
concert with this journey through richness and lyricism. Our post-concert reception will be presented by the First Unitarian Church's RAIHN task force - recipients of 25% of this concert's ticket revenue. $15 general / $5 student / $30 family maximum First Unitarian Church - 220 Winton Road South - Rochester NY 14610 Click here for Ticket Information Questions? Email info@FirstMuse.org |
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