Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
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
$81—$118 before fees