Mozart & Schumann

Following their triumphant Festival debut in 2024, the Calidore String Quartet marks their highly anticipated return with a Shostakovich tour-de-force—his dark-edged String Quartet No. 8—and joins pianist Orion Weiss for a work of a very different nature: Schumann’s exuberant Piano Quintet, known as classical music’s first great piano quintet. The program opens with Festival musicians playing Mozart’s stately Piano and Winds Quintet, which inspired the Beethoven work featured on the Festival’s July 16 evening program. 

MOZART Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano and Winds, K. 452  

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110  

SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 

Julius Drake, Orion Weiss, piano; Calidore String Quartet (Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan, violin; Jeremy Berry, viola; Estelle Choi, cello); Robert Ingliss, oboe; Todd Levy, clarinet; Julia Harguindey, bassoon; Julia Pilant, horn 

Approximate length: 1 hour and 45 minutes