Mozart & Arensky

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 

6 PM 

NM MUSEUM OF ART 

MOZART & ARENSKY 

Alan Gilbert—one of the world’s leading conductors and chamber musicians—returns to play violin in Arensky’s dark-hued Quartet in A Minor (written by the young composer as an homage to Tchaikovsky after his death) on a program that includes Mozart’s seminal G-minor Piano Quartet and the first-ever Festival performance of English composer Malcolm Arnold’s lively Divertimento. 

ARNOLD Divertimento for Flute, Oboe, and Clarinet, Op. 37 

MOZART Piano Quartet in G Minor, K. 478 

ARENSKY Quartet in A Minor for Violin, Viola, and Two Cellos, Op. 35 

Ran Dank, piano; Alan Gilbert, Jennifer Gilbert, violin; Toby Appel, Steven Tenenbom, viola; Paul Watkins, Peter Wiley, Kajsa William-Olsson, cello; Bart Feller, flute; Robert Ingliss, oboe; Todd Levy, clarinet 

Approximate length: 1 hour and 30 minutes