New Ground
Friday, August 11 · 7:30 PM
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall
Prelude Lecture by Michael Gerdes
6:30 PM in The JAI
Composers step out of their comfort zone and defy their surroundings in this powerful program. Gideon Klein’s ebullient and lighthearted String Trio was composed whilst the composer was imprisoned in the Terezín prison camp just days before his deportation to Auschwitz. Beethoven charted new ground in celestial music that was baffling to his contemporaries and has come to be considered a pinnacle of human creation. Having written almost exclusively just for the piano, Chopin’s Cello Sonata represents an extraordinary effort on the part of a composer who, only a few years from the end of his life, determined to master a genre he had never before attempted.
SIBELIUS
Serenata for Two Violins and Cello, JS169
Noah Bendix-Balgley, Max Tan*, violins
Julia Lee*, cello
CHOPIN
Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 65
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Inon Barnatan, piano
KLEIN
Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello
Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin
Richard O’Neill, viola
Paul Wiancko, cello
BEETHOVEN
String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2 “Rasumovsky”
*Fellowship Artist