Saturday, July 5, 2014

Past event (2014)

Masterclass: Gilbert Kalish, piano

Saturday, July 5 | 10:30am

Pre-Concert Discussion

Saturday, July 5 | 7:00pm
With Jens Kruse, Professor at Wellesley College, and Yellow Barn musicians

Wolfgang von Goethe's "Nachtlied", one of the most revered poems in the German language, is the inspiration for two works on this evening's Yellow Barn program. Wellesley College professor Jens Kruse will speak about "Nachtlied" and join Yellow Barn musicians in a discussion of Schubert and Widmann's treatment of it.

Yellow Barn Concert

Saturday, July 5 | 8:00pm
Berg, Widmann, Schubert, J.S. Bach, and Dvořák

Alban Berg (1885-1935) (trans. Roger Tapping) Vier Stücke, Op.5 (1913)
Roger Tapping, viola; Mei Rui, piano

Jörg Widmann (b.1973) Wandrers Nachtlied for five instruments and soprano (1999)

Tiffany du Mouchelle, soprano; Ari Isaacman-Beck, violin; Brook Ferguson, flutes and piccolo; Wai Lau, clarinets; Gilbert Kalish, prepared piano; Jisu Jung, percussion

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Nachtlied, D.768 (1822)
Tiffany du Mouchelle, soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Concerto in F Major, BWV 1053 (1739)
Mark Hill, oboe; Ari Isaacman-Beck and Ariel Mitnick, violins; Tegen Davidge, viola; Frédéric Rosselet, cello; Lee Dionne, harpsichord

Intermission

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) Trio in E Minor, Op.90 “Dumky” (1891)
The Peabody Trio
Violaine Melançon, violin; Natasha Brofsky, cello; Seth Knopp, piano

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