Magic and Alchemy 

Saturday, August 5 · 7:30 PM
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall

Musical Prelude by trioJEM
Beethoven’s Piano Trio No. 1 in E-flat Major, Opus 1
6:30 PM in The Baker- Baum Concert Hall

This concert explores the seemingly magical alchemical processes regularly used by Elizabethan composers to turn simple musical material into gold. Composers in Shakespeare’s London transformed their own music or the music of others, in turn inspiring Thomas Adès and Franz Schubert to do the same. This concert includes the U.S. premiere of Adès’ new clarinet quintet, described by the London Times after its world premiere as ‘arresting and magical” and the London Telegraph as “A triumphant premiere from our greatest living composer…”

A selection of Renaissance and Baroque works by BYRD, DOWLAND, GIBBONS and PURCELL 

THOMAS ADÈS
Alchymia — US Première

Mark Simpson, clarinet
Alexi Kenney, Anthony Marwood, violins
Rebecca Albers, viola
Coleman Itzkoff, cello

SCHUBERT
Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 “Trout”

Thomas Adès, piano
Tessa Lark, violin
Maiya Papach, viola
Efe Baltacigil, cello
Timothy Cobb, bass