Beethoven, Ligeti & Mendelssohn

Our 51st season begins with a thrilling program that spotlights the genius of three masters. Ligeti’s enchanting Six Bagatelles is a playful excursion through the wide range of delights only a wind quintet can offer, and Beethoven’s landmark Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 69, revels in the virtuosic demands placed on both the piano and cello, played here by Jon Kimura Parker and, in his Festival debut, Narek Hakhnazaryan, whose performances the San Francisco Chronicle hailed as “nothing short of magnificent.” The program comes to a spectacular close with Mendelssohn’s superlative D Minor Piano Trio, which Schumann called “the master trio of our time.” 

LIGETI Six Bagatelles for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn

BEETHOVEN Sonata in A Major for Piano and Cello, Op. 69

MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 49