Beethoven & Mendelssohn

SUNDAY, JULY 26 

MONDAY, JULY 27 

6 PM 

NM MUSEUM OF ART 

BEETHOVEN & MENDELSSOHN 

This powerhouse program begins with an intimate violin-and-piano performance of music from Stravinsky’s enduring ballet Pulcinella, moves to a beloved early composition by Beethoven—the Piano and Winds Quintet, whose instrumentation Beethoven took from Mozart’s 1784 quintet—and culminates in Mendelssohn’s genre-defining Octet, a work of staggering genius and beauty that the composer wrote when he was only 16 years old. 

STRAVINSKY Suite italienne from Pulcinella 

BEETHOVEN Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano and Winds, Op. 16 

MENDELSSOHN Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 

Ran Dank, Anna Polonsky, piano; Harvey de Souza, Alan Gilbert, Jennifer Gilbert, Noemi Gilbert, violin; Toby Appel, Steven Tenenbom, viola; Paul Watkins, Peter Wiley, cello; Robert Ingliss, oboe; Julian Bliss, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Jennifer Montone, horn 

Approximate length: 1 hour and 40 minutes