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MENDELSSOHN Sextet in D major for Piano and Strings, Op. 110 (1824) (30 min)IVES Piano Trio (1904-1911) (23 min)
MOZART Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major, K. 364 (1779) (arr. for String Septet) (26 min)
Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Alyssa Wang, violin; Nicholas Cords, viola; Marcus Thompson, viola; Edward Arron, cello; Clancy Newman, cello; Thomas Van Dyck, double bass; Max Levinson, piano
The warm sonorities of Mendelssohn’s Piano Sextet in D major come from the unusual call for two violas. Penned by the fifteen-year-old prodigy, the sextet casts the piano in the virtuosic leading role while strings provide support and ornamentation. Charles Ives’s Piano Trio draws inspiration from the composer’s days as a student at Yale. Musical ideas pour forth from Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, sometimes mournfully as in the rare minor mode slow movement, and at other times with supreme joy. In the string ensemble arrangement, the original solo violin and viola parts are redistributed among all instruments, which adds significant color.
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Sanders Theatre, Bank of America, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States,Cambridge, Massachusetts
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