Core members of the Society present a program of Mozart's Flute Quartet No. 1, Beethoven's cheery Serenade in D major and Dvorak's spirited Quintet in A Major, a work that contains echoes of Czech folk music, including a Furiant dance in the third movement.

The performance will be broadcast live by WQXR starting at 7:30pm.

Program:

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

With David Finckel, Wu Han, Kristin Lee, Sean Lee, Tara Helen O’Connor, Daniel Phillips,

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Quartet in D major for Flute, Violin, Viola & Cello, K. 285, (1778)

1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Rondo: Allegro

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Serenade in D major for Flute, Violin, & Viola, Opus 25, (1801)

1. Entrata. Allegro
2. Tempo ordinario d'un minuetto
3. Molto allegro
4. Andante con variazioni
5. Allegro, scherzando e vivace
6. Adagio
7. Allegro, vivace e disinvolto – Presto

INTERMISSION

Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904)
Quintet in A major for Piano, Two Violins, Viola & Cello, B. 155, Opus 81, (1887)

1. Allegro ma non tanto
2. Dumka. Andante con moto
3. Scherzo (Furiant). Molto vivace
4. Finale. Allegro

The first half contains instrumental works by J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach, as well as Stravinsky's Concerto in D from 1946. The latter work is in the fast-slow-fast format of the Baroque concerto grosso and contains Stravinsky's signature spiky rhythms and lyrical melodies.

The second half opens with Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, settings of six poems by British poets on the subject of night. Tenor Nicholas Phan, oboist Adam Hollander and French horn player Michael P. Atkinson are the soloists. The concert ends with an original composition by members of the Knights, called Chaconne.

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Program:

Nicholas Phan, tenor
Michael P. Atkinson, French horn
Adam Hollander, oboe
Johnny Gandelsman, violin

C.P.E. Bach: Sinfonia in C Major, WQ 182, No. 3
Stravinsky: Concerto in D
J.S. Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (with Phan)
The Knights: Chaconne (World Premiere)

Orpheus presents a program of popular and lesser-known works from the 18th and 19th centuries. Rossini's Overture to Cambiale di matrimonio (the "bill of marriage") is followed by Beethoven's popular Violin Romance No. 2 (soloist TBA). Haydn's Symphony No. 44, nicknamed "Trauer" ("mourning") was played at the composer's funeral at his own request. And Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings is a definitive late-Romantic era work, with its Valse movement having been appropriated for film and television shows.

WQXR hosts the live broadcast.

Program details:

Rossini: Overture to Cambiale di matrimonio

Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in F major, Op. 50

Haydn: Symphony No. 44 in E minor, “Trauer” Hoboken 1/44

Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C major, Opus 48

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More than standard summertime fare, the program traces aspects of religion and mythology. Stockhausen's Tierkreis (Zodiac), consists of 12 melodies, each representing one sign of the zodiac; Boccherini's Sinfonia No. 6 is nicknamed La Casa del Diavolo ("the house of the devil") and includes a hellish chaconne; a suite from Glass's 1993 chamber opera Orphee is based on the Orpheus legend; and Mozart's Symphony No. 41 is nicknamed the "Jupiter."

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Program details:

Eric Jacobsen, conductor

Boccherini: Sinfonia No. 6, ‘La Casa del Diavolo’ for orchestra in D minor, Op. 12, No. 4

Glass: Suite from Orphee (World Premiere)

Stockhausen: Selections from Tierkreis

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, “Jupiter”

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Celebrating twelve years of ambitious cultivation and innovative programming in new-music, Alarm Will Sound made headlines with a 2012-2013 season complete with the American premiere of Steve Reich’s Radio Rewrite, world premieres at Carnegie Hall, new recordings and an ongoing residency at St. Louis's Mizzou International Composers Festival. Highlights for next season include residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a return to Poland's Sacrum Profanum Festival in original arrangements of the music of Aphex Twin.

Formed in New York in 2003, itsnotyouitsme offers another perspective on Burhans's varied compositional interests and activities; its streamlined, loop-heavy textures a counterpoint to his writing for large ensemble. The duo, with his Eastman School of Music colleague, electric-guitarist Grey McMurray, draws in equal parts from ambient electronic, minimalism, post-rock and free jazz.

itsnotyouitsme

Alarm Will Sound

Amidst Neptune

Iceman Stole the Sun

oh ye of little faith... (do you know where your children are?)

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For performers, producers and composers of vernacular music, the electronic idiom is as fluent as a mother tongue, while too often classically trained musicians approach a laptop or a sampler with the halting, deliberate and utterly unconvincing air of an American tourist trying to flirt in Hungarian. 

Thankfully, there are exceptions. "Corps Exquis," Daniel Wohl's first full-length album for New Amsterdam Records, showcases his easy knack for electro-acoustics. Those pieces of Wohl's that cropped up on this or that recital prior to his embarking on the "Corps Exquis" project have always excelled at drawing the electronic component out of the acoustic materials, matching the instrumental and electronic timbres by drawing ingenious electronic elements from instrumental sources, but the exploration of a unified sound-world is just one of his strategies here.

For one thing, Wohl's ear for electronics is not only refined, it's also terribly stylish. He isn't afraid to set up a bona fide groove once in a while—the distorted percussion on the second movement, "323," suggests a junkyard breakbeat—and two guests from what might be loosely defined as the "pop" world, composer/vocalists Julia Holter and Aaron Roche, even turn up to croon on a few tracks.

The sound of chamber quintet Transit is very much the at the center of "Corps Exquis," exposed by the mix and by Wohl's often virtuosic writing, but this doesn't feel like a chamber music album with electronic accompaniment. Instead, Transit manages to seems like just one element from a much larger collection of forces, like the soloists who emerge within from a symphony orchestra, briefly take the spotlight, and then weave back into the larger texture. Between Wohl's electronics and Transit's instrumentalism, "Corps Exquis" adds up to more than the sum of its parts.

Daniel Wohl's 'Corps Exquis'
New Amsterdam