Around Dvořák II with Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano

Wednesday, February 9, 2022
7:30PM
$40

Our Four Arts 2022 festival, “Around Dvořák”, centers on the music of one of history’s most beloved composers. It’s exciting to discover that the famed creator of the New World Symphony was also the composer of a great number of definitive, masterful chamber works that constitute a significant portion of our standard repertoire today. In looking and listening “around” this impressive Czech composer, we’ll encounter those who influenced, inspired, and impacted Dvořák’s creativity, surrounded by an assemblage of his most heartfelt Romantic works, both classics and novelties. Hear an individual concert or participate in a week-long residency program with a package ticket.” – David Finckel and Wu Han, Beyer Artists-in-Residence

Around Dvořák II

This musical banquet pairs our featured composer, Antonín Dvořák, with his early and most important champion, Johannes Brahms. It was Brahms who introduced Dvořák to the publisher Simrock, who would become a key to his success. Beginning with Slavonic and Hungarian Dances of folklike vigor for four-hand piano, the program features sets of songs by both composers as well as two instrumental masterpieces by Dvořák: his unique and charming Terzetto for two violins and viola, composed for his friends, and his exuberant second Piano Quartet, written at the behest of Simrock, which features irresistible melodies for the cello.

 

Program

JENNIFER JOHNSON CANO, mezzo-soprano

WU HAN, piano

WU QIAN, piano

CHAD HOOPES, violin

DANBI UM, violin

PAUL NEUBAUER, viola

DAVID FINCKEL, cello

 

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Selected Slavonic Dances for Piano, Four Hands (1878, 1886)

Op. 46, No. 1: Presto in C major

Op. 72, No. 2: Allegretto grazioso in E minor

Op. 72, No. 1: Molto vivace in B major

Wu Qian, Wu Han

 

JOHANNES Brahms (1833-1897)
Selected Hungarian Dances for Piano, Four Hands (1868, 1880)

Allegro molto (G minor)

Allegro non assai (D minor)

Wu Qian, Wu Han

 

Dvořák
Terzetto in C major for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 74 (1887)

Introduzione: Allegro ma non troppo—

Larghetto

Scherzo: Vivace

Tema con variazioni: Poco adagio—Molto allegro

Hoopes, Um, Neubauer

 

Dvořák
Cigánské melodie for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano, B. 104, Op. 55 (1880)

My Song of Love

Ah! How Sweetly My Triangle Rings

And the Woods are Silent

Songs My Mother Taught Me

The Strings are Tuned

Wide Sleeves and Wide Trousers

Offer a Hawk a Cage

JOHNSON CANO, Wu Han

 

–INTERMISSION–

 

BRAHMS
Zwei Gesänge for Voice, Viola, and Piano, Op. 91 (1884)
Gestillte Sehnsucht (Rückert)

Geistliches Wiegenlied (Lope de Vega)
JOHNSON CANO, NEUBAUER, Wu QIAN

 

Dvořák
Quartet in E-flat major for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 87 (1889)

Allegro con fuoco

Lento

Allegro moderato, grazioso

Finale: Allegro ma non troppo

Wu Qian, Um, Neubauer, Finckel

 

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