Mozart & Brahms

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12 

6 PM 

NM MUSEUM OF ART 

MOZART & BRAHMS 

Violinist Jennifer Frautschi and pianist Katia Skanavi play Mozart’s virtuosic B-flat Sonata for Violin and Piano—which the composer wrote for a performance he gave with a famous Italian violinist in Vienna—and both musicians feature again in Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G Minor, a work that’s especially known for its spirited final movement. To open the program, the Verona Quartet—called “outstanding” by The New York Times—premieres a Festival-commissioned quartet by Alex Paxton, who’s been hailed as “a magician of sound” by the Financial Times and whose major awards include the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize. 

ALEX PAXTON New Work for String Quartet (Festival Commission, World Premiere) 

MOZART Sonata in B-flat Major for Violin and Piano, K. 454 

BRAHMS Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25 

Katia Skanavi, piano; Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Ida Kavafian, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello; Verona Quartet (Jonathan Ong, Dorothy Ro, violin; Abigail Rojansky, viola; Jonathan Dormand, cello) 

Approximate length: 1 hour and 45 minutes