MENDELSSOHN FESTIVAL
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center bring the exuberant energy of Felix Mendelssohn to the Four Arts stage. His daring masterpieces for familiar and novel mixes of string instruments and keyboards are combined with music from his greatest inspirations, W.A. Mozart and J.S. Bach, and by his good friend Robert Schumann.
Our tour of Felix Mendelssohn’s marvelous achievements continues with landmarks of his oeuvre. We’ll hear one of his first published works, the surging Piano Quartet in F minor, and his innovative, euphoric String Octet. These are balanced by delights for piano, four hands: iconic incidental music for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as his Andante and Allegro brilliant, a showcase of keyboard skill written for none other than Clara Schumann.
Anna Geniushene, piano
Wu Han, piano
Francisco Fullana, violin
Lun Li, violin
Richard Lin, violin
Julian Rhee, violin
Lawrence Dutton, viola
Guillermo Figueroa, viola
Dmitri Atapine, cello
David Finckel, cello
PROGRAM
Quartet in F minor for Piano, FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809–1847)
Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 2 (1823)
Allegro molto
Adagio
Intermezzo: Allegro moderato
Allegro molto vivace
GENUISHENE, LI, DUTTON, ATAPINE
A Midsummer Night’s Dream MENDELSSOHN
for Piano, Four Hands, Op. 61 (1843)
Nocturne
Scherzo
WU HAN, GENIUSHENE
Andante and Allegro brillant MENDELSSOHN
for Piano, Four Hands, Op. 92 (1841)
GENUISHENE, WU HAN
~ INTERMISSION ~
Octet in E-flat major for Strings, MENDELSSOHN
Op. 20 (1825)
Allegro moderato ma con fuoco
Andante
Scherzo: Allegro leggierissimo
Presto
R. LIN, LI, FULLANA, RHEE, DUTTON, FIGUEROA, ATAPINE, FINCKEL