LA MUSICA CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL’S
2023 SEASON PROGRAMS
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Monday, February 20, 2023 at 7:30pm
Riverview Performing Arts Center
This season we celebrate beloved composer Sergei Rachmaninov on the occasion of his 150th birth year and the 80th anniversary of his death. This program honors his glorious music and lasting influence in performance by 2022 Van Cliburn Competition medalists, Ukrainian Dmytro Choni and Russian Anna Geniushene, alongside Cliburn juror and La Musica Artistic Director, Wu Han.
TCHAIKOVSKY: Nutcracker Suite for Two Pianos (1892, arr. Economou)
RACHMANINOV: Suite no. 1 for Two Pianos, op. 5 (1893)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Berceuse for Solo Piano, op. 72, no. 2 (1892–93)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Scherzo à la russe for Solo Piano, op.1, no.1 (1867)
SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata no. 4, op. 30 (1903)
RACHMANINOV: Suite no. 2 for Two Pianos, op. 17 (1900–01)
Dmytro Choni, Anna Geniushene, Wu Han, pianos
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Monday, March 13, 2023 at 7:30pm
Riverview Performing Arts Center
Directly from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center stage, this program opens and closes with vibrant, beloved classics by Aaron Copland and George Gershwin. In between are short personal statements inspired by the composers’ relationship to religion, their interpretation of native folk music, and the deeply intimate reaction to the death of a friend. Take a trip in sound from the pulsating dance hall to the quieter prayer in this exploration of music from the Americas in the 20th century.
COPLAND: El Salón México for Piano and Percussion (1932-36, arr. Bernstein, 1941)
BERNSTEIN: Three Meditations from Mass for Cello, Piano, and Percussion (1971, arr. 1977)
GINASTERA: “Chacarera” from Cinco canciones populares argentinas for Voice and Piano, op.10 (1943)
CHÁVEZ: “North Carolina Blues” for Voice and Piano (1942)
GINASTERA: “Gato” from Cinco canciones populares argentinas for Voice and Piano, op. 10 (1943)
PONCE: “Estrellita” for Voice and Piano (1912)
BERNSTEIN: “I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story for Voice and Piano (1957)
BERNSTEIN: “Somewhere” from West Side Story for Voice and Piano (1957)
GOLIOV: Mariel for Cello and Marimba (1999)
VILLA-LOBOS: "A maré encheu" from Guia prátic o for Piano (1932)
VILLA-LOBOS: "O polichinelo" from A prole do bebê for Piano (1918)
GINASTERA: Pampeana no. 2, Rhapsody for Cello and Piano, op. 21 (1950)
LÉON: “Oh Yemanja” from Scourge of Hyacinths for Soprano, Cello, and Piano (1994)
GERSHWIN: Cuban Overture for Piano, Four Hands, and Percussion (1932)
Jessica Rivera, soprano; Michael Stephen Brown, Gilles Vonsattel, pianos; Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Ian David Rosenbaum, percussion
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Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 7:30pm
Pre-concert Talk at 6:45 pm
Sarasota Opera House
The opening concert of the 2023 Festival contains the best of everything that music has to offer–from mystery, to beauty, grand statements, and the greatest achievements in chamber music history. The program begins with one of Beethoven’s finest and most grand trios ever written at that time and closes with Mendelssohn’s most beloved Octet in E-flat major.
BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio in G major, op 1, no. 2 (1791-93, rev. 1794)
STRAUSS: Sextet for Strings from Capriccio, op. 85 (1940-41, arr. 1943)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Prelude and Scherzo for String Octet, op. 11 (1924–25)
MENDELSSOHN: Octet in E-flat major for Strings, op. 20 (1823)
Wu Han, piano; Chad Hoopes, Paul Huang, Kristin Lee, James Thompson, violins; Matthew Lipman, Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, violas; David Finckel, Keith Robinson, cellos
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 7:30pm
Pre-Concert Talk at 6:45 pm
Sarasota Opera House
In this aptly named concert, witness brilliant string playing virtuosity on full display in a series of exhilarating Baroque masterworks. The second half of this concert picks up where the previous Festival program ended, following the development of the string octet into the 20th century with the powerful and exotic Octet by George Enescu.
TELEMANN: Gulliver Suite in D major for Two Violins from Der Getreue Musik-Meister (c. 1728)
TELEMANN: Concerto for Four Violins in D major, TWV 40:202 (c. 1720)
TARTINI: Sonata in G minor for Violin and Continuo, “Devil’s Trill” (1756)
HANDEL/HALVORSEN: Passacaglia in G minor for Violin and Viola (1894)
ENESCU: Octet in C major for Strings, op. 7 (1900)
Wu Han, piano; Chad Hoopes, Paul Huang, Kristin Lee, James Thompson, violins; Matthew Lipman, Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, violas; David Finckel, Keith Robinson, cellos
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Saturday April 15, 2023 at 5:00pm
Pre-concert talk at 4:15pm
Sarasota Opera House
As a fitting tribute to La Musica’s co-founder and longtime Associate Artistic Director, Derek Han, Wu Han has designed a program that explores the deep musical friendships between composers Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák, and Harry Burleigh. Throughout music history, composers have consistently turned to chamber music as the medium through which to convey their deepest feelings and most personal thoughts, and this program featuring three gems of the literature is no exception.
BURLEIGH: Southland Sketches for Violin and Piano (1916)
BRAHMS: Piano Quartet no. 3 in C minor, op. 60 (1855-56, 1874)
DVOŘÁK: Piano Quintet in A minor, op. 81 (1887)
Wu Han, piano; Chad Hoopes, Kristin Lee, violins; James Thompson, viola; Keith Robinson, cello
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Photo credit:
L to R, row 1: Wu Han, David Finckel, Kristin Lee, Chad Hoopes, Keith Robinson, James Thompson,
Anna Geniushene, Dmytro Choni
L to R row, 2: Matthew Lipman, Paul Huang, Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, Michael Stephen Brown, Gilles Vonsattel,
Ian David Rosenbaum, Nicholas Canellakis, Jessica Rivera
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